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CVE-2026-10879 DBI versions before 1.648 for Perl have a heap overflow when preparsing SQL statements with more than 9 binders

Description

DBI versions before 1.648 for Perl have a heap overflow when preparsing SQL statements with more than 9 binders. The preparse method expands SQL placeholder characters to numbered binders of the form :pN, but only allocates three characters per binder in the buffer. Placeholders 10-99 require four characters, 100-999 require five characters, et cetera.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
DBI 1.648 earliest → < 1.648 1.648
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