CPANSA-DBI-2026-10879: DBI vulnerability
| Publisher | giterlizzi | Document category | csaf_security_advisory |
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| Initial release date | 2026-06-05T00:00:00 | Engine | CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.26 |
| Current release date | 2026-06-05T00:00:00 | Build Date | |
| Current version | 1 | Status | final |
| CVSS v3.1 Base Score | Severity | ||
| Original language | Language | en | |
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Vulnerability Description
DBI versions before 1.648 for Perl have a heap overflow when preparsing SQL statements with more than 9 binders. The preparse method expands SQL placeholder characters to numbered binders of the form :pN, but only allocates three characters per binder in the buffer. Placeholders 10-99 require four characters, 100-999 require five characters, et cetera.
Vulnerabilities
CVE-2026-10879
Vulnerability DescriptionDBI versions before 1.648 for Perl have a heap overflow when preparsing SQL statements with more than 9 binders.
The preparse method expands SQL placeholder characters to numbered binders of the form :pN, but only allocates three characters per binder in the buffer. Placeholders 10-99 require four characters, 100-999 require five characters, et cetera.
| Weakness | CWE-787 : Out-of-bounds Write |
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Product status
Known affected
| Product | Score | ||||
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| DBI less than 1.648 |
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Fixed
- DBI greater than or equal 1.648
giterlizzi
Namespace: https://github.com/giterlizzi/
gdt@cpan.org
References
- CPANSA-DBI-2026-10879 JSON self
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2026/cpansa-dbi-2026-10879.json - https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/af79036c07aa9a457971c0f4136e37c85dc20978.patch external
https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/af79036c07aa9a457971c0f4136e37c85dc20978.patch - https://metacpan.org/release/HMBRAND/DBI-1.648/changes external
https://metacpan.org/release/HMBRAND/DBI-1.648/changes - CVE-2026-10879 (NVD) external
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-10879
Revision history
| Version | Date of the revision | Summary of the revision |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fri Jun 5 00:00:00 2026 | First release |
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