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CVE-2005-4870

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2005-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Stack-based buffer overflows in the (1) xmlvarcharfromfile, (2) xmlclobfromfile, (3) xmlfilefromvarchar, and (4) xmlfilefromclob function calls in IBM DB2 8.1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a 94-byte second argument, which causes the return address to be overwritten with a pointer to the argument.

Affected Platforms

Ibm Db2

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References