CVE-2020-14392: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An untrusted pointer dereference flaw was found in Perl-DBI < 1.643. A local attacker who is able to manipulate calls to dbd_db_login6_sv() could cause memory corruption, affecting the service's availability.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 31 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only; version 15.2 only
• Perl Database Interface: before 1.643 (fixed in 1.643)

Published 2020-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.