source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38001/info Ingres Database is prone to a heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied data. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the application or crash the affected application. Ingres Database 9.3 on Unix is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. s = "\x00\x00\x00\x00" s += "\xff\xff\xff\xff" s += "\x3c\x00\x00\x00\x06\x00\x00\x00" s += "A" * 1000