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Out-of-bounds Write

CVE-2013-7491

Severity Medium
Score 5.3/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in the DBI module prior to 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.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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CWE-787 - Out-of-Bounds Write

Out-of-bounds write vulnerability is a memory access bug that allows software to write data past the end or before the beginning of the intended buffer. This may result in the corruption of data, a crash, or arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published