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CVE-2005-4866

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.8 Published: 2005-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in JDBC Applet Server in IBM DB2 8.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary by connecting and sending a long username, then disconnecting gracefully and reconnecting and sending a short username and an unexpected db2java.zip version, which causes a null terminator to be removed and leads to the overflow.

Affected Platforms

Ibm Db2 Universal Database

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References