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XML-Bare-0.52
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 0.52

  • Added proper binmode setting when outputting XML to address deficiences on Win32 ( such as failing Strawberry perl due to line endings )
  • Added evil OS check in file writing code to address differences in how files must be opened to write utf8 on win32 versus linux/cygwin.
  • Added note regarding using utf8 flag instead of using encoding(utf8)
  • Altered UTF8 test to also write XML containing UTF8 to a file.

Modules

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

Provides

XML::Bare::Object
in Bare.pm

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