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IBM DB2 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA29784
Release Date: 2008-04-16
Last Update: 2008-07-31
Popularity: 5,325 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Unknown
Manipulation of data
Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Partial Fix

Software:IBM DB2 9.x
IBM DB2 Universal Database 8.x

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in IBM DB2, where one has an unknown impact, while others can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges or gain escalated privileges.

1) A boundary error within the set-uid root db2dasrrm program can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by setting the DASPROF environment variable to a specially crafted, overly long string.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.

2) The "dasRecoveryIndex", "dasRecoveryIndex.tmp", ".dasRecoveryIndex.lock", and "dasRecoveryIndex.cor" files are created insecurely when the db2dasrrm program is started. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files with root privileges.

Successful exploitation requires access to an account that is allowed to start and stop the DB2 Administration Server (e.g. "dasusr1" or the "db2adm1" group).

These vulnerabilities are reported in version 9.1 (Fix Pack 4 and Fix Pack 3) on Linux. Other versions may also be affected.

3) An unspecified error exists related to the DB2FMP process. No further information is currently available.

4) A boundary error can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow in the DAS server process, which allows execution of arbitrary code with escalated privileges.

5) Two vulnerabilities can be exploited to overwrite arbitrary files or to execute arbitrary code on an affected system.

For more information see vulnerabilities #2 and #3 in:
SA29022

Vulnerabilities #3 to #5 are reported in versions prior to 9.5 Fixpak 1.

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