Security Advisory SA43148 - IBM DB2 "DBADM" Privilege Revocation Security Bypass

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Secunia Advisory SA43148

IBM DB2 "DBADM" Privilege Revocation Security Bypass

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SA43148

Release Date

2011-01-31

Last Update

2011-02-04

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Security Bypass

Where

From local network

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Solution Status

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Software:

IBM DB2 9.x

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CVE-2011-0757 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A security issue has been reported in IBM DB2, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to an error in the application while revoking "DBADM" privileges. This can lead to users still being able to execute non-DDL statements.

The security issue is reported in the following versions:
* IBM DB2 9.1 prior to Fix Pack 10.
* IBM DB2 9.5 prior to Fix Pack 6a.
* IBM DB2 9.7 prior to Fix Pack 2.

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Original Advisory
IBM (IC66811, IC66814, and IC66815)
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21426108

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