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Ubuntu: USN-4503-1 (CVE-2020-14392): Perl DBI module vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4503-1 (CVE-2020-14392): Perl DBI module vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/16/2020
Created
09/19/2020
Added
09/17/2020
Modified
11/15/2024

Description

An untrusted pointer dereference flaw was found in Perl-DBI < 1.643. A local attacker who is able to manipulate calls to dbd_db_login6_sv() could cause memory corruption, affecting the service's availability.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libdbi-perl

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