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CVE-2004-1372
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in IBM DB2 7.x and 8.1 allow local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long third argument to…
High7.2EPSS 0.49%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in IBM DB2 7.x and 8.1 allow local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a long third argument to the rec2xml function or (2) a long filename argument to the generate_distfile procedure.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 12 days later
· 12 days later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.49% · top 58% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- 20041223 IBM DB2 generate_distfile buffer overflow vulnerability (#NISR2122004L) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20041223 IBM DB2 rec2xml buffer overflow vulnerability (#NISR2122004J) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- db2-rec2xml-bo(18682) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- db2-generatedistfile-bo(18663) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 11089 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/db223122004L.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/db223122004K.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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