Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-20919 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/commit/eca7d7c8f43d96f6277e86d1000e842eb4cc67ff
- https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/DBI/Changes#Changes-in-DBI-1.643-...
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4534-1/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00026.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00013.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JXLKODJ7B57GITDEZZXNSHPK4VBYXYHR/