Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:26133] [ruby:trunk] yaml access invalid memory area"
    on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:41:03 +0900, Tanaka Akira <akr / fsij.org> writes:
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|YAML generates error message with a garbage as :
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|% ./ruby -ryaml -ve 'YAML.load("a: b\n" + "c"*100)' |& cat -v
|ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-10-17 trunk 25379) [i686-linux]
|/home/ruby/tcio/lib/ruby/1.9.1/yaml.rb:133:in `load': syntax error on line 1, col 100: `M-<^\^T^HM-AM-^?M-^?M-^?,M-r^S^H^B' (ArgumentError)
|        from /home/ruby/tcio/lib/ruby/1.9.1/yaml.rb:133:in `load'
|        from -e:1:in `<main>'

Syck seems to have implicit limitation of length of tokens.  I
consider it a bug, and it should be fixed, but I feel it is quite
difficult to fix (as _why disappeared).

							matz.