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CVE-2013-7490

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An issue was discovered in the DBI module before 1.632 for Perl. Using many arguments to methods for Callbacks may lead to memory corruption.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04
• HMBRAND DBI: before 1.632 — fixed in 1.632

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: HMBRAND DBI 1.632. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/a8b98e988d6ea2946f5f56691d6d5ead53f65766
• https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/DBI/Changes#Changes-in-DBI-1.632-9th-Nov-2014
• https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=86744#txn-1880941
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4509-1/
• https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/a8b98e988d6ea2946f5f56691d6d5ead53f65766
• https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/DBI/Changes#Changes-in-DBI-1.632-9th-Nov-2014
• https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=86744#txn-1880941
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4509-1/

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