CVE-2006-3854 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-3854
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Description: Buffer overflow in IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 9.40.TC7, 9.40.TC8, 10.00.TC4, and 10.00.TC5, when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long username, which causes an overflow in vsprintf when displaying in the resulting error message. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2006-3853.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28381 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1409 MISC http://www.databasesecurity.com/informix/DatabaseHackersHandbook-AttackingInformix.pdf BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/443133/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/443150/100/0/threaded

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