CVE-2007-1087

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: 2007-02-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

IBM DB2 8.x before 8.1 FixPak 15 and 9.1 before Fix Pack 2 does not properly terminate certain input strings, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified environment variables that trigger a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows: 8.0, 8.0-fp13, 8.0-fp14, 8.0-fp8, 8.0-fp9, 8.1 (+14)

References

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=481
http://osvdb.org/40970
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255747
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001765.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22677
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32651
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=481
http://osvdb.org/40970
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255747
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001765.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22677
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32651

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