CVE-2026-14740 Affecting perl-dbi package, versions <1.651-r0


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE324-PERLDBI-18310119
  • published26 Jul 2026
  • disclosed7 Jul 2026

Introduced: 7 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-14740  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.24 perl-dbi to version 1.651-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perl-dbi package and not the perl-dbi package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.24 relevant fixed versions and status.

DBI versions before 1.650 for Perl read one byte out-of-bounds in preparse when deleting an initial SQL comment.

The preparse method normalises SQL and removes comments. When the SQL starts with a comment line, the deletion of that line during normalisation led to an out-of-bounds read by one byte. The result is a fault on memory-hardened builds and nondeterministic newline retention on normal builds.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1