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XML-Bare-0.22
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 0.22

  • Altered makefile.pl to be compatible with more platforms.
  • Removed dependency upon string.h for msvc because it was breaking activestate builds.
  • Perl 5.005 now supported
  • Comment parsing had an issue when the node containing the comment had no direct value. This has now been resolved.
  • Using comments caused ever increasing blank spaces to be added. This has now been resolved.
  • A test for comment reading has been added.
  • A test for cyclic equality ( repeated loading and saving ) has now been added.

Modules

XML::Bare
Minimal XML parser implemented via a C state engine

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