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FKIE_CVE-2020-14392

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-09-16 13:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:54
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00067.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00074.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1877402Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00026.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JXLKODJ7B57GITDEZZXNSHPK4VBYXYHR/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/DBI/Changes#Changes-in-DBI-1.643Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4503-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00067.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00074.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1877402Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00026.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JXLKODJ7B57GITDEZZXNSHPK4VBYXYHR/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/DBI/Changes#Changes-in-DBI-1.643Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4503-1/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
perl database_interface *
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 18.04
opensuse leap 15.1
opensuse leap 15.2
fedoraproject fedora 31
debian debian_linux 9.0
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