Two vulnerabilities have been reported in DB2, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) Errors during the processing of SQLJRA packets can be exploited to crash the DB2 instance via a specially crafted SQLJRA packet.

2) An unspecified error after the CONNECT processing can be exploited to cause a DoS.

Solution
Update to version 8.1 FixPak 13 (8.2 FixPak 6).
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Provided and/or discovered by
1) Vivek Rathod, Application Security Inc.
2) Reported by the vendor.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
Application Security:
http://www.appsecinc.com/resources/alerts/db2/2006-09-05.shtml

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