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IBM DB2 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA31787
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Release Date:
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2008-09-08
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Last Update:
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2008-11-04
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Popularity:
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1,881 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Unknown
Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | DB2 Universal Database 8.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2008-2154
CVE-2008-3958
CVE-2008-3960
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in DB2, where some have an unknown impact and others can be exploited by malicious users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges, and by malicious people to cause a DoS or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
1) An unspecified error related to the processing of CONNECT and ATTACH requests can be exploited to cause a DoS.
2) An unspecified error exists related to the DB2FMP process. No further information is currently available.
This is related to vulnerability #3 in:
SA29784
3) An unspecified error in the DB2JDS service can be exploited to cause a crash via specially crafted packets.
4) A boundary error in DAS server code can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and may allow to cause a DoS or execute arbitrary code.
5) An error in "INSTALL_JAR can be exploited to create or overwrite arbitrary files on the system.
6) Views and triggers are not dropped and marked inoperative within the Native Managed Provider for .NET if the definer cannot maintain the objects.
The vulnerabilities are reported in IBM DB2 version 8 prior to Fixpak 17.
Solution:
Update to Fixpak 17.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.
4) The vendor credits Diego Bauche, Application Security Inc.
5) The vendor credits an anonymous researcher working with iDefense.
Changelog:
2008-09-10: Added vulnerability #4 and #5. Updated "Original Advisory" and credits sections.
2008-09-11: Added CVE reference.
2008-11-04: Added vulnerability #6. Updated "Original Advisory" section.
Original Advisory:
IBM (IZ08134, IZ20350, JR29274, IZ22004, IZ22142, IZ22287):
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/product...lish-us/aparlist/db2_v82/APARLIST.TXT
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21323084
Other References:
SA29784:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29784/
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