RHBA-2008:0918 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated perl-DBI, perl-DBD-MySQL, and perl-DBD-Pg packages that resolve
possible application crashes are now available.

Description

Perl-DBI is a database access Application Programming Interface (API) for
the Perl language. The DBI API specification defines a set of functions,
variables, and conventions, that provide a consistent database interface,
which is independent of the database being used. perl-DBD-MySQL and
perl-DBD-Pg are implementations of this interface for the MySQL and
PostgreSQL database servers, respectively.

These updated perl-DBI, perl-DBD-MySQL, and perl-DBD-Pg packages provide
fixes for the following bugs:

• applications using either the DBD::MySQL or DBD::Pg module could crash

due to a segmentation fault when running with a large number of bind
variables. This has been fixed in these updated packages.

All users of perl-DBI, perl-DBD-MySQL, and perl-DBD-Pg are advised to
upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 443495 - Perl DBI segfault when issuing query with large number of bind variables
• BZ - 444579 - Perl DBD-Pg might segfault when issuing query with large number of bind variables
• BZ - 444580 - Perl DBD-MySQL segfault when issuing query with large number of bind variables

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)