CVE-2008-3854: IBM DB2 Universal Database

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in IBM DB2 9.1 before Fixpak 5 and 9.5 before Fixpak 1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system outage) via vectors related to (1) use of XQuery to issue statements; the (2) XMLQUERY, (3) XMLEXISTS, and (4) XMLTABLE statements; and the (5) sqlrlaka function.

Affected products

• IBM DB2 Universal Database: version 9.1 only; version 9.5 only

Published 2008-08-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.