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IBM DB2 Universal Data Authorisation Checking Bypass
Secunia Advisory: SA15808
Release Date: 2005-06-24
Last Update: 2005-06-29
Popularity: 7,330 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Privilege escalation
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:DB2 Universal Database 8.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-2073


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in IBM DB2 Universal Database, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error making to possible to bypass certain authorisation checks. This can be exploited by a user with only SELECT permissions on a table to insert, update, or delete content in that table.

Successful exploitation requires that the user is authenticated and has SELECT permissions on the table.

Solution:
The vendor has issued FixPaks.

DB2 Universal Database Version 8 FixPak 6c:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg24009926

DB2 Universal Database Version 8 FixPak 7b:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg24009931

DB2 Universal Database Version 8 FixPak 8a:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg24009930

DB2 Universal Database Version 8 FixPak 9a:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg24009929

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Changelog:
2005-06-29: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
IBM:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21209727
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY73104


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