RHSA-2026:99162HighCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: perl-DBI security update

Published
November 11, 2026
Last Modified
November 11, 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 products11

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • perl-DBI-0:1.641-5.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • perl-DBI-0:1.641-5.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • perl-DBI-0:1.641-5.el8_10.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • perl-DBI-0:1.641-5.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • perl-DBI-debuginfo-0:1.641-5.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • perl-DBI-debuginfo-0:1.641-5.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • perl-DBI-debuginfo-0:1.641-5.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • perl-DBI-debugsource-0:1.641-5.el8_10.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • perl-DBI-debugsource-0:1.641-5.el8_10.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8)
  • perl-DBI-debugsource-0:1.641-5.el8_10.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 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)