CVE-2020-14393
A buffer overflow was found in perl-DBI < 1.643 in DBI.xs. A local attacker who is able to supply a string longer than 300 characters could cause an out-of-bounds write, affecting the availability of
02 Description
A buffer overflow was found in perl-DBI < 1.643 in DBI.xs. A local attacker who is able to supply a string longer than 300 characters could cause an out-of-bounds write, affecting the availability of
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.60% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 48.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-09-16 13:27Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 12:46Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-06-17
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- ba358f18f8bacecf7d2466a91743b7ad60b661ff3f5af294a1d11a11df0ad8a4
05 Affected products
06 References
- metacpan.orghttps://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/DBI/Changes#Changes-in-DBI-1.643
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1877409
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1483http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00067.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1502http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00074.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-f30298614ahttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JXLKODJ7B57GITDEZZXNSHPK4VBYXYHR/
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20200928 [SECURITY] [DLA 2386-1] libdbi-perl security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00026.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- libdbi-perl Fixed in 1.643-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- libdbi-perl Fixed in 1.643-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- libdbi-perl Fixed in 1.643-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- libdbi-perl Fixed in 1.640-1ubuntu0.3
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS
- libdbi-perl No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- libdbi-perl Fixed in 1.634-1ubuntu0.2+esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.