Description
DBI versions before 1.650 for Perl have a heap overflow when preparsing SQL statements with an extreme number of placeholders. The fix for CVE-2026-10879 did not allocate enough memory to handle approximately 1.2-million placeholders. DBI version 1.650 sets a hard limit of 99,999 placeholders.
Problem types
Product status
Any version before 1.650
Timeline
| 2026-06-04: | Version 1.648 released with a fix for CVE-2026-10879. |
| 2026-07-07: | Version 1.650 released. |
References
github.com/...2b77c88b655e9539a592c71a61fb965fc0075395.patch
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-10879
metacpan.org/release/HMBRAND/DBI-1.650/changes