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Oracle ELSA-2026-38901 perl-DBI Important Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey July 20, 2026
Scroller Oracle
Critical updates address stack and buffer overflow issues in Perl-DBI for Oracle Linux 8, improving security.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

Summary

perl-DBI [1.641-5] - Fix stack overflow and buffer overflow in DBI.xs (CVE-2026-9698) Resolves: RHEL-184974 [1.641-4] - BR: perl(blib), perl(FileHandle) for tests [1.641-3] - Rebuild with enable hardening (bug #1636329) [1.641-2] - Rebuilding for multicontext errata test purposes (rhbz#1666480) [1.641-1] - 1.641 bump [1.640-3] - Add build-require gcc [1.640-2] - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild [1.640-1] - 1.640 bump [1.639-1] - 1.639 bump [1.637-1] - 1.637 bump perl-DBI [1.641-5] - Fix stack overflow and buffer overflow in DBI.xs (CVE-2026-9698) Resolves: RHEL-184974 [1.641-4] - BR: perl(blib), perl(FileHandle) for tests [1.641-3] - Rebuild with enable hardening (bug #1636329) [1.641-2] - Rebuilding for multicontext errata test purposes (rhbz#1666480) [1.641-1] - 1.641 bump [1.640-3] - Add build-require gcc [1.640-2] - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild [1.640-1] - 1.640 bump [1.639-1] - 1.639 bump ...

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SRPMs

http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/perl-DBI-1.641-5.module+el8.10.0+90956+569bae39.src.rpm http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/perl-DBI-1.641-5.module+el8.10.0+90958+c97fdab0.src.rpm

x86_64

perl-DBI-1.641-5.module+el8.10.0+90956+569bae39.x86_64.rpm perl-DBI-1.641-5.module+el8.10.0+90958+c97fdab0.x86_64.rpm

aarch64

perl-DBI-1.641-5.module+el8.10.0+90956+569bae39.aarch64.rpm perl-DBI-1.641-5.module+el8.10.0+90958+c97fdab0.aarch64.rpm

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Related CVEs: CVE-2026-9698

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