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CVE-2013-7491

• 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-787

Description

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.

Affected products

• HMBRAND DBI: before 1.628 — fixed in 1.628

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: HMBRAND DBI 1.628. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/401f1221311c71f760e21c98772f0f7e3cbead1d
• https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/DBI/Changes#Changes-in-DBI-1.628-22nd-July-2013
• https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=85562
• https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/401f1221311c71f760e21c98772f0f7e3cbead1d
• https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/DBI/Changes#Changes-in-DBI-1.628-22nd-July-2013
• https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=85562

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