RHSA-2026:99162 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for perl-DBI is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The perl-DBI package provides the standard database interface module for the Perl programming language. It implements a database-independent interface, meaning it defines a consistent set of methods, variables, and conventions for database operations.

Security Fix(es):

• perl-DBI: DBI: Loading of arbitrary modules via unvalidated dbm_type and dbm_mldbm attributes in DBD::DBM (CVE-2026-78030)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2538843 - CVE-2026-78030 perl-DBI: DBI: Loading of arbitrary modules via unvalidated dbm_type and dbm_mldbm attributes in DBD::DBM

CVEs

• CVE-2026-78030

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important