CVE-2006-3854

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Buffer overflow in IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 9.40.TC7, 9.40.TC8, 10.00.TC4, and 10.00.TC5, when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long username, which causes an overflow in vsprintf when displaying in the resulting error message. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2006-3853.

Buffer overflow in IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 9.40.TC7, 9.40.TC8, 10.00.TC4, and 10.00.TC5, when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long username, which causes an overflow in vsprintf when displaying in the resulting error message. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2006-3853.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

IBM Informix Dynamic Database Server

First reported 18 years ago

2006-08-17 01:04:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-17 21:31:00

Affected Software

IBM Informix Dynamic Database Server 9.40.TC7

9.40.tc7

IBM Informix Dynamic Database Server 9.40.TC8

9.40.tc8

IBM Informix Dynamic Database Server 10.00.TC4

10.00.tc4

IBM Informix Dynamic Database Server 10.00.TC5

10.00.tc5

References

1409

http://www.databasesecurity.com/informix/DatabaseHackersHandbook-AttackingInformix.pdf

Exploit

20060814 Informix - Discovery, Attack and Defense

20060814 Error logging buffer overflow in Informix

informix-long-username-bo(28381)

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