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DB2 db2govd, db2start and db2stop Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10173
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Release Date:
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2003-11-10
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Popularity:
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7,987 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | DB2 Universal Database 7.x
DB2 Universal Database 8.x
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in DB2, which can be exploited by malicious users to escalate their privileges.
The problem is that certain command line arguments aren't properly verified. This can be exploited by supplying overly long, specially crafted strings and string containing format specifiers, which may allow execution of arbitrary code with escalated privileges.
The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions 7.0 and 8.1.
Solution:
IBM has issued FixPak 4 for DB2 version 8.1.
http://www-3.ibm.com/cgi-bin/db2www/d...inos2unix/support/download.d2w/report
IBM has scheduled a release of FixPak 11 for DB2 version 7.0 later in November.
Provided and/or discovered by:
KF
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