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CVE-2013-7491 (GCVE-0-2013-7491)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-09-11 18:37 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:09
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • n/a
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