CVE-2008-3356: Ingres

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

verifydb in Ingres 2.6, Ingres 2006 release 1 (aka 9.0.4), and Ingres 2006 release 2 (aka 9.1.0) on Linux and other Unix platforms sets the ownership or permissions of an iivdb.log file without verifying that it is the application's own log file, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink with an iivdb.log filename.

Affected products

• Ingres Ingres: version 2.6 only; version 2006 only

Published 2008-08-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.