Security Advisories (2)
CVE-2026-13401 (2026-07-16)

XML::Bare versions through 0.53 for Perl will hang in an infinite loop when parsing malformed attributes. The parserc_parse function never advances the attribute-parse state cursor on certain malformed attribute forms, looping forever. Nameless attributes such as "<a ='c'>" or unbalanced quotes "<a b='''''''c'>" can trigger this condition.

CVE-2026-57074 (2026-07-16)

XML::Bare versions through 0.53 for Perl have an unbounded character lookahead. The parserc_parse function attempts to check for multicharacter strings such as "<![CDATA" or element terminators such as ">" without checking that the offsets are within the buffer. Truncated strings such as "<a/" can trigger an out-of-bounds read.

Changes for version 0.53

  • Remove executable permissions from files that shouldn't have them.
  • Added shebang to main Bare.pm file ( apparently some people want this )
  • Correct line endings to unix style on parser.c
  • Improved simplify function that works properly with trees instead of just a single level
  • Added hash2xml to quickly convert recursing hashes into XML

Modules

Minimal XML parser implemented via a C state engine

Provides

in Bare.pm