CVE-2008-3389 Information

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.

Reference

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=732 http://secunia.com/advisories/31357 http://secunia.com/advisories/31398 http://securitytracker.com/id?1020615 http://www.ingres.com/support/security-alert-080108.php http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495177/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30512 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2292 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2313 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44179 https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=181989