Out-of-Bounds Affecting libdbi-perl package, versions <1.643-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.55% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-LIBDBIPERL-11747967
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed16 Sept 2020

Introduced: 16 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-14392  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 libdbi-perl to version 1.643-1 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:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

An untrusted pointer dereference flaw was found in Perl-DBI < 1.643. A local attacker who is able to manipulate calls to dbd_db_login6_sv() could cause memory corruption, affecting the service's availability.

CVSS Base Scores

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