CVE-2008-3854

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-08-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in IBM DB2 9.1 before Fixpak 5 and 9.5 before Fixpak 1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system outage) via vectors related to (1) use of XQuery to issue statements; the (2) XMLQUERY, (3) XMLEXISTS, and (4) XMLTABLE statements; and the (5) sqlrlaka function.

Affected products

IBM Db2 Universal Database: 9.1, 9.1-fp2, 9.1-fp3, 9.1-fp4, 9.1-fp4a, 9.5

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30558
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ16346
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ18431
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ18434
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496406/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29601
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1769
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42930
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42935
http://secunia.com/advisories/30558
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ16346

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