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 0.11

  • Changed XS code so that it is backwards compatible with older versions of Perl.
  • Changed XS code to use 'blind' pointers, a custom created Perl Scalar. Speed is increased as a result for XML with large contiguous values.

Modules

Minimal XML parser implemented via a C state engine