CVE-2008-1966: IBM DB2

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in the JAR file administration routines in the BSU JAVA subcomponent in IBM DB2 8 before FP16, 9.1 before FP4a, and 9.5 before FP1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (instance crash) via a call to the (1) RECOVERJAR or (2) REMOVE_JAR procedure with a crafted parameter, related to (a) sqlj.install_jar and (b) sqlj.replace_jar.

Affected products

• IBM DB2: version 8.0 only; version 9.5 only; version 9.1 only

Published 2008-04-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.