diff --git a/projects/libyaml/Dockerfile b/projects/libyaml/Dockerfile
index 8477cced985f..fbf343c051f3 100644
--- a/projects/libyaml/Dockerfile
+++ b/projects/libyaml/Dockerfile
@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ RUN git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/yaml/libyaml
 RUN zip $SRC/libyaml_seed_corpus.zip libyaml/examples/*
 
 WORKDIR libyaml
-COPY build.sh *.h *_fuzzer.c libyaml_fuzzer.options yaml.dict $SRC/
+COPY run_tests.sh build.sh *.h *_fuzzer.c libyaml_fuzzer.options yaml.dict $SRC/
diff --git a/projects/libyaml/run_tests.sh b/projects/libyaml/run_tests.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c3e15ca7430c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/libyaml/run_tests.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/bash -eu
+#
+# Copyright 2025 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+################################################################################
+
+# Disable leak sanitizer and run unit testing
+export ASAN_OPTIONS="detect_leaks=0"
+make check -C tests -j$(nproc)