Security Advisory SA10173 - DB2 db2govd, db2start and db2stop Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

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Secunia Advisory SA10173

DB2 db2govd, db2start and db2stop Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Secunia Advisory

SA10173

Release Date

2003-11-10

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

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Software:

DB2 Universal Database 7.x

IBM 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.
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