CVE-2005-4866: Buffer Overflow

First published: Sat Dec 31 2005(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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