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CVE-2005-4870

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% 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 overflows in the (1) xmlvarcharfromfile, (2) xmlclobfromfile, (3) xmlfilefromvarchar, and (4) xmlfilefromclob function calls in IBM DB2 8.1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a 94-byte second argument, which causes the return address to be overwritten with a pointer to the argument.

Affected products

• IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows: 8.1

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110495554227717&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/12733/
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY62297
• http://www.nextgenss.com/advisories/db205012005H.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11404
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17617
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110495554227717&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/12733/
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY62297
• http://www.nextgenss.com/advisories/db205012005H.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11404
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17617

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