CVE-2026-5089

A flaw was found in perl-YAML-Syck. The base60 (sexagesimal) parsing code in perl_syck.h contains a buffer underflow vulnerability. When processing specially crafted colon-separated values, an attacker could cause the parser to read one byte before the allocated buffer. This out-of-bounds read may lead to information disclosure.

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Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.