CVE-2005-4866 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2005-4866

Stack-based buffer overflow in JDBC Applet Server in IBM DB2...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

db2 universal database
Vulnerable Versions:
7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, 8.1

Timeline

Official Publish: October 6th, 2007
Last Modified: August 8th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.