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openSUSE Leap 16.0 Advisory 2026-21435-1 perl-XML-Bare Moderate Risk

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Calendar Grey July 24, 2026
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This update for openSUSE addresses moderate vulnerabilities in perl-XML-Bare that can cause significant issues.
openSUSE has released a security update for perl-XML-Bare addressing two vulnerabilities that could lead to parsing issues and crashes, applicable to openSUSE Leap 16.0.

Description

This update for perl-XML-Bare fixes the following issues:

Changes in perl-XML-Bare:

- CVE-2026-13401: XML:Bare would hang when parsing malformed attributes (bsc#1271640)

- CVE-2026-57074: Fixed unbounded character lookahead (bsc#1271637)

Patch instructions:

To install this openSUSE security update use the suse recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 16.0

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-Leap-16.0-packagehub-438=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate OpenSUSE perl-XML-Bare unbounded character malformed attributes

Patch

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 16.0:

perl-XML-Bare-0.53-bp160.2.1

References

* bsc#1271637

* bsc#1271640

References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-13401.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-57074.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2026:21435-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate OpenSUSE perl-XML-Bare unbounded character malformed attributes

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