Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0218: perl-DBI:1.641 (ALINUX3-SA-2026:0218)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 329126

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2026:0218 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2026-10879:
DBI versions before 1.648 for Perl have a heap overflow when preparsing SQL statements with more than 9 binders.
The preparse method expands SQL placeholder characters to numbered binders of the form :pN, but only allocates three characters per binder in the buffer. Placeholders 10-99 require four characters, 100-999 require five characters, et cetera.

CVE-2026-9698:
DBI versions before 1.648 for Perl saved errors in a limited-sized buffer.
Error messages that were returned when RaiseError, PrintError or HandleError were set were written to a 200-byte buffer without a length limit.
Attackers that can influence the error text in an application can trigger a buffer overflow.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected perl-DBI package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 329126

File Name: alinux3_sa_2026-0218.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/23/2026

Updated: 7/23/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.05

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-9698

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:perl-dbi

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Alibaba/release, Host/Alibaba/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/5/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-10879, CVE-2026-9698

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