CVE-2006-3857: IBM Informix Dynamic Database Server

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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).

Affected products

• IBM Informix Dynamic Database Server: version 9.3 only; version 9.40.tc1 only; version 9.40.tc2 only; version 9.40.tc3 only; version 9.40.tc4 only; version 9.40.tc5 only; …

Published 2006-08-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.