CVE-2008-3389

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-08-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the libbecompat library in Ingres 2.6, Ingres 2006 release 1 (aka 9.0.4), and Ingres 2006 release 2 (aka 9.1.0) on Linux and HP-UX allows local users to gain privileges by setting a long value of an environment variable before running (1) verifydb, (2) iimerge, or (3) csreport.

Affected products

Ingres: 2.6, 2006-9.0.4, 2006-9.1.0

References

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=732
http://secunia.com/advisories/31357
http://secunia.com/advisories/31398
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020615
http://www.ingres.com/support/security-alert-080108.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495177/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30512
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2292
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2313
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44179
https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=181989
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=732

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