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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.8 Critical

CVE-2025-15646

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

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

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

BPS HTML::Gumbo

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 0.19affected

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