UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15646 (CVE-2025-15646)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-07-01 16:16 – Updated: 2026-07-09 15:10 – Source website
VLAI
Details

HTML::Gumbo versions before 0.19 for Perl disclose heap memory via type confusion. Support for the 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 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

{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libhtml-gumbo-perl",
            "binary_version": "0.17-1build1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "libhtml-gumbo-perl",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/libhtml-gumbo-perl@0.17-1build1?arch=source\u0026distro=bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "0.17-1build1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libhtml-gumbo-perl",
            "binary_version": "0.18-2build2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:20.04:LTS",
        "name": "libhtml-gumbo-perl",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/libhtml-gumbo-perl@0.18-2build2?arch=source\u0026distro=focal"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "0.18-2build1",
        "0.18-2build2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libhtml-gumbo-perl",
            "binary_version": "0.18-2build4"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:22.04:LTS",
        "name": "libhtml-gumbo-perl",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/libhtml-gumbo-perl@0.18-2build4?arch=source\u0026distro=jammy"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "0.18-2build3",
        "0.18-2build4"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libhtml-gumbo-perl",
            "binary_version": "0.18-3build5"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:24.04:LTS",
        "name": "libhtml-gumbo-perl",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/libhtml-gumbo-perl@0.18-3build5?arch=source\u0026distro=noble"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "0.18-3build1",
        "0.18-3build2",
        "0.18-3build3",
        "0.18-3build4",
        "0.18-3build5"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "HTML::Gumbo versions before 0.19 for Perl disclose heap memory via type confusion. Support for the \u003ctemplate\u003e 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 =\u003e \u0027string\u0027, or with format =\u003e \u0027tree\u0027, on input containing a \u003ctemplate\u003e element serializes the over-read bytes into the returned result, disclosing bounded heap contents. format =\u003e \u0027callback\u0027 reaches a croak on the unhandled node type and is unaffected.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15646",
  "modified": "2026-07-09T15:10:16Z",
  "published": "2026-07-01T16:16:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-15646"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-15646"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/ruz/HTML-Gumbo/issues/6"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/bestpractical/html-gumbo/commit/15c0598909d4a64f47ef0a1abc5051f4e113c186"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2025-15646"
  ]
}



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