VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2009-2753

critical
Published 2010-03-05 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the authentication functionality in librpc.dll in the Informix Storage Manager (ISM) Portmapper service (aka portmap.exe), as used in IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 10.x before 10.00.TC9 and 11.x before 11.10.TC3, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted parameter size.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-12109 dos multiple verified
ZSploit.com · 2010-04-08

Multiple Vendor 'librpc.dll' Signedness Error - Remote Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server11.10.xc3e
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc9e
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc10
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc1
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc2e
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc3
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc3e
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc4
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc4e
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc5
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc5e
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc6
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc6e
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc7
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc7e
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc8
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc8e
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc9
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.tc1
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server10.0.xc10e
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server11.1
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server11.10
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server11.10.xc1
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server11.10.xc1de
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server11.10.xc2
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server11.10.xc2e
ibm ibminformix_dynamic_server11.10.xc3

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.