CVE-2005-4864

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in libdb2.so in IBM DB2 7.x and 8.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long DB2LPORT environment variable.

Affected products

IBM Db2 Universal Database: 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, 8.1

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110495092105541&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/12733/
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY62042
http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/db205012005B.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11390
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17616
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110495092105541&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/12733/
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY62042
http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/db205012005B.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11390
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17616

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