CVE-2026-88816 – DBI versions before 1.654 for Perl incorrectly treat numeric values as strings in FetchHas

DBI versions before 1.654 for Perl incorrectly treat numeric values as strings in FetchHashKeyName.

fetchrow_hashref uses the string pointer of the FetchHashKeyName attribute as the key name without stringifying it first. When FetchHashKeyName has been set to an integer (IV) or floating-point (NV) value, that pointer is invalid, so reading the key name triggers a segmentation fault.

This can be triggered with the following code:

my $dbh = DBI->connect( “dbi:ExampleP:”, “”, “”,
{ RaiseError => 0, PrintError => 0 } );
$dbh->{FetchHashKeyName} = 42;

my $sth = $dbh->prepare(“select mode, size, name from .”);
$sth->execute;
$sth->fetchrow_hashref;