CVE-2005-4866

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% 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 JDBC Applet Server in IBM DB2 8.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary by connecting and sending a long username, then disconnecting gracefully and reconnecting and sending a short username and an unexpected db2java.zip version, which causes a null terminator to be removed and leads to the overflow.

Affected products

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

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110495251101381&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/12733/
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY61492
http://www.nextgenss.com/advisories/db205012005D.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11401
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17613
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110495251101381&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/12733/
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY61492
http://www.nextgenss.com/advisories/db205012005D.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11401
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17613

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