CVE-2025-33092 (GCVE-0-2025-33092)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-29 18:36 – Updated: 2025-07-31 03:55
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Title
IBM Db2 for Linux code execution
Summary
IBM Db2 for Linux 12.1.0, 12.1.1, and 12.1.2 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow in db2fm, caused by improper bounds checking. A local user could overflow the buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
ibm
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM Db2 Affected: 11.5.0 , ≤ 11.5.9 (semver)
Affected: 12.1.0 , ≤ 12.1.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:11.5.0:*:*:*:*:linux:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:11.5.9:*:*:*:*:linux:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:12.1.0:*:*:*:*:linux:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:12.1.1:*:*:*:*:linux:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:12.1.2:*:*:*:*:linux:*:*
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