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Critical RHSA-2026:38512 2 CVEs

Red Hat Security Advisory: perl-DBI security update

Published Jul 14, 2026 · Updated Oct 17, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream perl-DBI 0:1.643-9.el9_8.1
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream perl-DBI-debuginfo 0:1.643-9.el9_8.1
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream perl-DBI-debugsource 0:1.643-9.el9_8.1

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2026-10879

    DBI versions before 1.648 for Perl have a heap overflow when preparsing SQL statements with more than 9 binders

    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 …

    HMBRAND DBI libdbi-perl libdbi-perl Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine
  • High 7.5
    CVE-2026-9698

    DBI versions before 1.648 for Perl saved errors in a limited-sized buffer

    DBI versions before 1.648 for Perl saved errors in a limited-sized buffer. Error messages that were returned when RaiseError, PrintError or HandleError were set were written to a 200-byte buffer without a length limit. Attackers that can influence the error t…

    HMBRAND DBI libdbi-perl libdbi-perl Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2486734
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_38512.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-9698
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-9698
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-9698
  • article
    https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/bfe5d73c162d2d1f761a639a0aa33aad6a9eb54e.patch
  • article
    https://metacpan.org/release/HMBRAND/DBI-1.648/changes
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-10879
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2485464
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-10879
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-10879
  • article
    https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/af79036c07aa9a457971c0f4136e37c85dc20978.patch