RHSA-2026:99208HighCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Security Advisory: perl-DBI security update

Published
November 12, 2026
Last Modified
November 12, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

CVE-2026-88815 →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 CVE-2026-88815 — perl-DBI: perl-DBI: Denial of Service via invalid memory read during numeric type casting

🎯 Affected products14

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • perl-DBI-0:1.643-12.el9_9.3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • perl-DBI-0:1.643-12.el9_9.3.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • perl-DBI-0:1.643-12.el9_9.3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • perl-DBI-0:1.643-12.el9_9.3.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • perl-DBI-0:1.643-12.el9_9.3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • perl-DBI-debuginfo-0:1.643-12.el9_9.3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • perl-DBI-debuginfo-0:1.643-12.el9_9.3.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • perl-DBI-debuginfo-0:1.643-12.el9_9.3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • perl-DBI-debuginfo-0:1.643-12.el9_9.3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • perl-DBI-debugsource-0:1.643-12.el9_9.3.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • perl-DBI-debugsource-0:1.643-12.el9_9.3.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • perl-DBI-debugsource-0:1.643-12.el9_9.3.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)
  • perl-DBI-debugsource-0:1.643-12.el9_9.3.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)

✅ 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. Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.

🔗 References (5)