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1 vulnerability found for HTML::Gumbo by BPS
CVE-2025-15646 (GCVE-0-2025-15646)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-01 14:38 – Updated: 2026-07-01 18:09
VLAI?
Title
HTML::Gumbo versions before 0.19 for Perl disclose heap memory via type confusion
Summary
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.
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
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Affected:
0 , < 0.19
(custom)
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Credits
Vincent Lefevre
Niko Tyni
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