Summary
Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-4177: YAML::Syck versions through 1.36 for Perl has several potential security vulnerabilities including a high-severity heap buffer overflow in the YAML emitter. The heap overflow occurs when class names exceed the initial 512-byte allocation. The base64 decoder could read past the buffer end on trailing newlines. strtok mutated n->type_id in place, corrupting shared node data. A memory leak occurred in syck_hdlr_add_anchor when a node already had an anchor. The incoming anchor string 'a' was leaked on early return.
Fixed packages 2
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux · 2 | perl-YAML-Syck | 0:1.27-3.amzn2.0.4 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | perl-YAML-Syck-debuginfo | 0:1.27-3.amzn2.0.4 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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Critical 9.1
YAML::Syck versions through 1.36 for Perl has several potential security vulnerabilities including a high-severity heap buffer overflow in the YAML emitter
YAML::Syck versions through 1.36 for Perl has several potential security vulnerabilities including a high-severity heap buffer overflow in the YAML emitter. The heap overflow occurs when class names exceed the initial 512-byte allocation. The base64 decoder c…
References
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web
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-4177.html