CVE-2008-3389

Ingres 2.6, 9.0.4, 9.1.0 - Local Privilege Escalation via Long Environment Variable in libbecompat

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 (11)

Core 11
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020615
Broken Link third-party-advisory x_refsource_idefense
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=732
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2292
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/31398
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2313
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/31357
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44179
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495177/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30512

Scores

EPSS 0.0044
EPSS Percentile 35.9%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (2)
ingres/ingres 2.6
ingres/ingres 2006 9.0.4 (2 CPE variants)
Published Aug 05, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026