CVE-2008-3389 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-3389
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44179 ST 1020615 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA31357 Secunia Advisory: SA31398 IDEFENSE http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=732 CONFIRM http://www.ingres.com/support/security-alert-080108.php BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495177/100/0/threaded BID 30512

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