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Debian: CVE-2019-20919: libdbi-perl -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2019-20919: libdbi-perl -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/17/2020
Created
09/30/2020
Added
09/30/2020
Modified
09/30/2020

Description

An issue was discovered in the DBI module before 1.643 for Perl. The hv_fetch() documentation requires checking for NULL and the code does that. But, shortly thereafter, it calls SvOK(profile), causing a NULL pointer dereference.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-libdbi-perl

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