weird characters in ArgumentError

[janek]

to demonstrate:

require 'yaml' YAML.load("a:\nbcd:") YAML.load("a:\nbcde:")

result: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in load': syntax error on line 1, col 4: XXX' (ArgumentError?)

from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load' from ./eof.rb:4

where XXX is in the first case "\x10" and in the second one "\x09\x10"

basically this is obviously wrong YAML, but tit seems like buffer overflow. Happens just when the second key is longer then the first by 2 or 3 chars. Less or more is fine.

Tried on ruby 1.8.5 (oneclick 21/win32), 1.8.4/(ubuntu dapper)