RHSA-2026:99121HighCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: perl-DBI security update

Published
November 12, 2026
Last Modified
November 12, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-78030 →

📋 Description

CVE-2026-78030 — perl-DBI: DBI: Loading of arbitrary modules via unvalidated dbm_type and dbm_mldbm attributes in DBD::DBM

🎯 Affected products14

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.8)
  • perl-DBI-0:1.643-9.el9_8.8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.8)
  • perl-DBI-0:1.643-9.el9_8.8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.8)
  • perl-DBI-0:1.643-9.el9_8.8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.8)
  • perl-DBI-0:1.643-9.el9_8.8.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.8)
  • perl-DBI-0:1.643-9.el9_8.8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.8)
  • perl-DBI-debuginfo-0:1.643-9.el9_8.8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.8)
  • perl-DBI-debuginfo-0:1.643-9.el9_8.8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.8)
  • perl-DBI-debuginfo-0:1.643-9.el9_8.8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.8)
  • perl-DBI-debuginfo-0:1.643-9.el9_8.8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.8)
  • perl-DBI-debugsource-0:1.643-9.el9_8.8.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.8)
  • perl-DBI-debugsource-0:1.643-9.el9_8.8.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.8)
  • perl-DBI-debugsource-0:1.643-9.el9_8.8.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.8)
  • perl-DBI-debugsource-0:1.643-9.el9_8.8.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.8)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Workaround: Do not allow untrusted input to control dbm_type or dbm_mldbm (including DSN fragments). Prefer not exposing DBD::DBM connect parameters to less-trusted parties.

🔗 References (4)