Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0073: perl-YAML-Syck (ALINUX3-SA-2026:0073)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 307691

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2026:0073 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2026-4177:
YAML::Syck versions through 1.36 for Perl has several potential security vulnerabilities including a high- severity heap buffer overflow in the YAML emitter.
The heap overflow occurs when class names exceed the initial 512-byte allocation.
The base64 decoder could read past the buffer end on trailing newlines.
strtok mutated n->type_id in place, corrupting shared node data.
A memory leak occurred in syck_hdlr_add_anchor when a node already had an anchor. The incoming anchor string 'a' was leaked on early return.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected perl-YAML-Syck package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 307691

File Name: alinux3_sa_2026-0073.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 4/21/2026

Updated: 4/21/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-4177

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:perl-yaml-syck

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Alibaba/release, Host/Alibaba/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-4177

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