CVE-2019-20919

Description

An issue was discovered in the DBI module before 1.643 for Perl. The hv_fetch() documentation requires checking for NULL and the code does that. But, shortly thereafter, it calls SvOK(profile), causing a NULL pointer dereference.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4534-1/

https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/DBI/Changes#Changes-in-DBI-1.643-...

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JXLKODJ7B57GITDEZZXNSHPK4VBYXYHR/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00026.html

https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/eca7d7c8f43d96f6277e86d1000e842eb4cc67ff

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00013.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00012.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3