CPANSA-DBI-2020-02: DBI vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2020-09-17T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2020-09-17T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 4.7 Severity High
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

An issue was discovered in the DBI module before 1.643 for Perl. The hv_fetch() documentation requires checking for NULL and the code does that. But, shortly thereafter, it calls SvOK(profile), causing a NULL pointer dereference.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-20919

Vulnerability Description

An issue was discovered in the DBI module before 1.643 for Perl. The hv_fetch() documentation requires checking for NULL and the code does that. But, shortly thereafter, it calls SvOK(profile), causing a NULL pointer dereference.

Weakness CWE-476 : NULL Pointer Dereference

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
DBI less than 1.643
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H 4.7 Medium
2.0 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P 1.9 Low
Fixed

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 2020 First release

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