CVE-2006-3854

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 17, 2006
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Jul 26, 2006

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

20060814 Error logging buffer overflow in Informixmailing-list
informix-long-username-bo(28381)vdb-entry
20060814 Informix - Discovery, Attack and Defensemailing-list
1409third-party-advisory
http://www.databasesecurity.com/informix/DatabaseHackersHandbook-AttackingInformix.pdf

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