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Critical RHSA-2026:71608 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: perl-DBI security update

Published Sep 25, 2026 · Updated Sep 25, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos perl-DBI 0:1.641-3.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos perl-DBI-debuginfo 0:1.641-3.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos perl-DBI-debugsource 0:1.641-3.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Critical 9.1
    CVE-2026-73194

    DBI versions before 1.652 for Perl allow a heap out-of-bounds write via an unvalidated numeric placeholder that sets the binder counter in preparse

    DBI versions before 1.652 for Perl allow a heap out-of-bounds write via an unvalidated numeric placeholder that sets the binder counter in preparse. preparse reserves seven output bytes per input byte, the width of the longest ':p99999' expansion. The ':N' br…

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

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2516959
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_71608.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-73194
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-73194
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-73194
  • article
    https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/29b72ae7d2a8114a734a55840bf1c45b89207809.patch
  • article
    https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/security/advisories/GHSA-623j-hfpc-mrc4
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-10879
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-14739