Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 5, 2008· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2008-3389
CVE-2008-3389
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.
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References
11- secunia.com/advisories/31357nvdThird Party Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/31398nvdThird Party Advisory
- securitytracker.com/idnvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/30512nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2292nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2313nvdThird Party Advisory
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44179nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.phpnvdBroken Link
- www.ingres.com/support/security-alert-080108.phpnvdBroken Link
- support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontentnvdBroken Link
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495177/100/0/threadednvd
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