CVE-2008-3389

high

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the libbecompat library in Ingres 2.6, Ingres 2006 release 1 (aka 9.0.4), and Ingres 2006 release 2 (aka 9.1.0) on Linux and HP-UX allows local users to gain privileges by setting a long value of an environment variable before running (1) verifydb, (2) iimerge, or (3) csreport.

References

Advisories
More

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44179

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2313

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2292

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30512

http://securitytracker.com/id?1020615

http://secunia.com/advisories/31398

http://secunia.com/advisories/31357

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495177/100/0/threaded

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-08-05

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00062