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Medium RHSA-2026:77576 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: perl-DBI security update

Published Oct 8, 2026 · Updated Oct 17, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos perl-DBI 0:1.641-4.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos perl-DBI-debuginfo 0:1.641-4.el8_10
Red Hat · RHEL 8 enterprise_linux:8::baseos perl-DBI-debugsource 0:1.641-4.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.2
    CVE-2026-88815

    DBI versions before 1.654 for Perl incorrectly treat numeric values as strings in sql_type_cast_svpv

    DBI versions before 1.654 for Perl incorrectly treat numeric values as strings in sql_type_cast_svpv. When casting to SQL_NUMERIC, sql_type_cast_svpv passes the string pointer and length of the SV to grok_number without stringifying it first. An integer (IV) …

    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=2542559
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_77576.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-88815
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-88815
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-88815
  • article
    https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/e5ad87e5602da995d28b4d65df222368b58d6702.patch
  • article
    https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/security/advisories/GHSA-c8vq-w3wr-6979
  • article
    https://metacpan.org/release/HMBRAND/DBI-1.654/changes