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>> IBM DB2 Denial of Service and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Title : IBM DB2 Denial of Service and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2893
CVE ID : CVE-2008-4691 - CVE-2008-4692 - CVE-2008-4693
CWE ID : CWE-200 - CWE-264 - CWE-399
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-10-23


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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in IBM DB2, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or gain knowledge of sensitive information.

The first vulnerability is caused by an error in "SQLNLS_UNPADDEDCHARLEN()" which could be exploited to crash an affected server.

The second issue is caused due to views and triggers not being marked inoperative or dropped if definer cannot maintain the objects.

The third vulnerability is caused due to password-related connection string keyword values apprearing in trace output.

Affected Products

IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) versions prior to 9.1 Fix Pack 6

Solution

Upgrade to version 9.1 Fix Pack 6 :
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=71&uid=swg27007053

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2893
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27013892

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by the vendor.

ChangeLog

2008-10-23 : Initial release

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