Threats Tagged 'cve-2026-15043'

This security update for perl-DBI addresses multiple vulnerabilities including unauthorized file access due to symbolic link validation failure, bypass of file-backed filters from incorrect predicate evaluation, a memory-amplification denial of service via unbounded path index in profile parsing, and a process crash caused by out-of-bounds access in statement handle processing. The vulnerabilities collectively pose a high severity risk. The update targets specific SUSE platform versions and architectures.

DBI::SQL::Nano versions from 1.42 before 1.651 for Perl have inverted <= and >= SQL operators on text. DBI::SQL::Nano, DBI's built-in mini-SQL engine, evaluated WHERE predicates incorrectly in some cases. In the non-numeric string branch of the is_matched method, <= was evaluated using Perl's ge operator, and >= was evaluated using Perl's le operator. SQL::Nano is the fallback query engine for DBI's file-backed drivers (DBD::File, DBD::DBM, CSV-style drivers) whenever SQL::Statement is not installed, and is forced whenever DBI_SQL_NANO=1. Queries over such tables use these predicates directly. The impact depends on the context. Where an application relies on a WHERE clause to filter file-backed data for policy or authorization, an inverted <=/>= comparison silently returns the wrong rows.