Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libdbi-perl package, versions <1.628-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.66% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-LIBDBIPERL-5684317
  • published12 Sept 2020
  • disclosed11 Sept 2020

Introduced: 11 Sep 2020

CVE-2013-7491  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 libdbi-perl to version 1.628-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libdbi-perl package and not the libdbi-perl package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the DBI module before 1.628 for Perl. Stack corruption occurs when a user-defined function requires a non-trivial amount of memory and the Perl stack gets reallocated.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1