Out-of-bounds write in DBI - CVE-2013-7491

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Out-of-bounds write in DBI - CVE-2013-7491

Published: September 11, 2020 / Updated: September 18, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU46809
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-7491
CWE-ID: CWE-787
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
DBI
Software vendor:
TIMB

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

An issue was discovered in the DBI module before 1.628 for Perl. Stack corruption occurs when a user-defined function requires a non-trivial amount of memory and the Perl stack gets reallocated.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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