CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.5. It may be remotely exploitable. Exploitation may require the attacker to be authenticated.
CVE
CVE-2006-3857
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
3.82%
Original NVD Description
Multiple buffer overflows in IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) before 9.40.TC6 and 10.00 before 10.00.TC3 allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via (1) the getname function, as used by (a) _sq_remview, (b) _sq_remproc, (c) _sq_remperms, (d) _sq_distfetch, and (e) _sq_dcatalog; and the (2) SET DEBUG FILE, (3) IFX_FILE_TO_FILE, (4) FILETOCLOB, (5) LOTOFILE, and (6) DBINFO functions (product defect IDs 171649, 171367, 171387, 171391, 171906, 172179).