CVE-2002-1583: IBM DB2 Universal Database

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in sqllib/security/db2ckpw for IBM DB2 Universal Database 6.0 and 7.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long username that is read from a file descriptor argument.

Affected products

• IBM DB2 Universal Database: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only; version 8.2 only

Published 2004-09-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.