CRITICALVulnerability

CVE-2026-73193

DBI versions before 1.652 for Perl allow a heap out-of-bounds write on 32-bit perl via an integer wraparound in the output buffer size computed by preparse. preparse reserves its output buffer with `newSV(strlen(statement) * 7 + 16)`, budgeting seven output bytes per input byte for the longest ':p99999' expansion. The product is computed in STRLEN, which is 32 bits wide on a 32-bit perl build, so a statement of 613,566,757 bytes multiplies to 4,294,967,299, wraps modulo 2^32 to 3, and reserves 19 bytes. The parser then copies the statement out through a raw pointer with no capacity check, writing the whole 585 MB input past the end of the allocation. The 99,999 placeholder limit does not bound this path, which is reached by ordinary non-placeholder content. Any caller that passes an untrusted statement of that length to preparse on a 32-bit perl gets a heap out-of-bounds write of attacker controlled bytes. Builds with a 64-bit STRLEN are not affected, since the wrap there needs a statement of about 2.3 exabytes.

Properties

severity
CRITICAL
score
9.8
epss_score
0.00477
cve_id
CVE-2026-73193
vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
published_at
2026-08-15T13:17:48.327
last_modified
2026-08-28T15:42:20.060
epss_percentile
0.39395

Related Entities (4)

ENRICHED_BY (1)

[Source]FIRST EPSS

HAS_WEAKNESS (2)

[Weakness]Out-of-bounds Write
[Weakness]Integer Overflow or Wraparound

DESCRIBED_BY (1)

[Source]NVD

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