Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in IBM DB2, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An error in the "db2stst" program can be exploited to obtain the DB2 instance owner privileges.

2) An unspecified error in the DB2DART tool can be exploited to overwrite files owned by the DB2 instance owner.

3) An error exists when special group and user enumeration is performed and can be exploited to trap the server.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires Windows 2008.

The vulnerabilities are reported in the following versions:
* DB2 9.1 prior to Fix Pack 9.
* DB2 9.5 prior to Fix Pack 6.
* DB2 9.7 prior to Fix Pack 2.

Solution
Update to version 9.1 Fix Pack 9, 9.5 Fix Pack 6, and 9.7 Fix Pack 2.

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Original Advisory
IBM (IC65408, IC65703, IC65742, IC65749, IC65756, IC65762, IC66099, IC66642, IC66643):
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21426108
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21432298
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC66099
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC65408
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC66642
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC66643
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC65703
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC65742
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21444772

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