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CVE-2008-2559
Integer overflow in Borland Interbase 2007 SP2 (8.1.0.256) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed packet to TCP…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 3.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Integer overflow in Borland Interbase 2007 SP2 (8.1.0.256) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed packet to TCP port 3050, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue might be related to CVE-2008-0467.
Timeline
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Published
- 16 years later
· 16 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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.9% · top 9.5% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 1020092 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 29302 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- borland-packet-bo(42558) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2278 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1590 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 30299 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-2554 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2008-2559)Record last updated .