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;
{
"cna_assigner": "CPANSec",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-843"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/88xxx/CVE-2026-88816.json"
}