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Secunia Advisory SA9795

DB2 Discovery Service Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA9795
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Release Date 2003-09-19
   
Popularity 7,025 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact DoS
Where From local network
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
DB2 Universal Database 7.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.

  

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in DB2, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) on the Discovery Service.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the Discovery Service (port 523/udp). This can be exploited to crash it by sending a datagram containing more than 20 bytes of data.


Solution
Apply DB2 7.2 FixPak 10a:
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Aaron C. Newman, Application Security.

Original Advisory
IBM APAR IY47686:
http://www-3.ibm.com/cgi-bin/db2www/data/db2/udb/winos2unix/support/aparlib.d2w/display_apar_details?aparno=IY47686

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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