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Critical · 9.8 CVE-2025-15646 EUVD-2025-210396GHSA-754r-h5mg-r795

HTML::Gumbo versions before 0.19 for Perl disclose heap memory via type confusion

Published Jul 1, 2026 · Updated Jul 1, 2026 · Assigned by CPANSec

Description

HTML::Gumbo versions before 0.19 for Perl disclose heap memory via type confusion.

Support for the <template> element was added to libgumbo 0.10.0 in 2015, but the walk_tree function in lib/HTML/Gumbo.xs was not updated to support it. The element was treated as a text-node, where strlen() over-reads the heap block that the pointer addresses.

Any caller that runs parse() with the default format => 'string', or with format => 'tree', on input containing a <template> element serializes the over-read bytes into the returned result, disclosing bounded heap contents. format => 'callback' reaches a croak on the unhandled node type and is unaffected.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
BPS HTML::Gumbo < 0.19 0.19

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 libhtml-gumbo-perl 0.18-5 —
Debian 13 libhtml-gumbo-perl 0.18-5 —
Debian 12 libhtml-gumbo-perl 0.18-3+deb12u1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS libhtml-gumbo-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS libhtml-gumbo-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS libhtml-gumbo-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libhtml-gumbo-perl No fix yet —

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