CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-78183
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-08-23
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Assigner
- 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
DBD::Pg version 3.21.0 for Perl has a heap out-of-bounds write in quote_float.
quote_float() allocates the length of the string + 1, which is the size of the bare numeric symbol plus NULL. But for special literals NaN, Inf, +Inf, -Inf, Infinity, +Infinity, -Infinity it emits the literal surrounded by quotes plus NULL, which is length + 3 bytes. Every recognised literal (case-insensitive) overflows by 2 bytes, a single quote and a NULL.
This can be reached by the $dbh->quote method, for example
$dbh->quote( "Infinity", DBI::SQL_NUMERIC ).
This regression was introduced in 3.21.0 by the quote.c rewrite.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://github.com/bucardo/dbdpg/commit/6d6f47ed2403cda55c82b1bad56e388ba7390065.patch github.com
- https://github.com/bucardo/dbdpg/commit/adacf1de872326a465e13f9e4281a674ebcd227e github.com
- https://github.com/bucardo/dbdpg/security/advisories/GHSA-785p-fw3v-r822 github.com
- https://metacpan.org/release/TURNSTEP/DBD-Pg-3.21.1/source/Changes metacpan.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/23/5 www.openwall.com