Vulnerability CVE-2006-3854
Published: 2006-08-16   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Error logging buffer overflow in Informix
NGSSoftware Insi...
19.08.2006

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
IBM -> Informix dynamic database server 

 References:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1409
http://www.databasesecurity.com/informix/DatabaseHackersHandbook-AttackingInformix.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443133/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443150/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28381
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