Vigil@nce - Perl DBI: NULL pointer dereference via dbi_profile
November 2020 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, openSUSE Leap, Perl Module
not comprehensive, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on
client.
Provenance: intranet server.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 22/09/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a NULL pointer to be dereferenced via
dbi_profile() of Perl DBI, in order to trigger a denial of service.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Perl-DBI-NULL-pointer-dereference-via-dbi-profile-33383