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Ubuntu: USN-4534-1 (CVE-2019-20919): Perl DBI module vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 17, 2020
Added
Jun 10, 2021
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libdbi-perlubuntu-upgrade-libdbi-perl
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