CVE-2008-1966

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-04-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the JAR file administration routines in the BSU JAVA subcomponent in IBM DB2 8 before FP16, 9.1 before FP4a, and 9.5 before FP1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (instance crash) via a call to the (1) RECOVERJAR or (2) REMOVE_JAR procedure with a crafted parameter, related to (a) sqlj.install_jar and (b) sqlj.replace_jar.

Affected products

IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows: 8.0, 8.0-fp1, 8.0-fp10, 8.0-fp11, 8.0-fp12, 8.0-fp13 (+26)

References

http://osvdb.org/46268
http://osvdb.org/46269
http://secunia.com/advisories/29022
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ08512
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ08945
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ15496
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607
http://www.appsecinc.com/resources/alerts/db2/2008-04.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491071/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28835
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29601
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41955

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