Description
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.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1877402
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/DBI/Changes#Changes-in-DBI-1.643
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4503-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00067.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00074.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JXLKODJ7B57GITDEZZXNSHPK4VBYXYHR/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00026.html
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0055
EPSS Percentile
41.6%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-119
CWE-822
Status
published
Products (9)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.04
debian/debian_linux
9.0
fedoraproject/fedora
31
opensuse/leap
15.1
opensuse/leap
15.2
perl/database_interface
< 1.643
Published
Sep 16, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026