CVE-2026-88815 (GCVE-0-2026-88815)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-28 16:04 – Updated: 2026-09-28 18:10
VLAI
Title
DBI versions before 1.654 for Perl incorrectly treat numeric values as strings in sql_type_cast_svpv
Summary
DBI versions before 1.654 for Perl incorrectly treat numeric values as strings in sql_type_cast_svpv. When casting to SQL_NUMERIC, sql_type_cast_svpv passes the string pointer and length of the SV to grok_number without stringifying it first. An integer (IV) or floating-point (NV) value has no valid string pointer, so grok_number reads from an invalid address, triggering a segmentation fault. This is reachable in Perl using the sql_type_cast function: my $num = 42; DBI::sql_type_cast( $num, DBI::SQL_NUMERIC, 0 );
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-843 - Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Affected: 0 , < 1.654 (custom)
Credits
Harsh Raj Singhania
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