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Multiple DoS vulnerabilities in SQLJRA protocol
March 11, 2008
Risk Level:
High
Affected versions:
DB2 versions 8.1,8.2,9.1
Remote exploitable:
Yes
Credits:
These vulnerabilities were discovered and researched by Martin Rakhmanov, Cesar Cerrudo and Esteban Martinez Fayo of Application Security Inc.
Details:
Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities exist in DB2.
A specially crafted SQLJRA packet can cause the DB2 instance to crash.
No special privileges are required to exploit these vulnerabilities.
Impact:
Any remote unauthenticated attacker can crash the DB2 instance.
Vendor Status:
Vendor was contacted and a patch was released.
Fix:
To fix the problem apply the fixpak 16 for DB2 versions 8.1/8.2 and fixpack 4a for DB2 version 9.1
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=71&uid=swg21256235
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=71&uid=swg21255572
APAR:
IZ05043
IZ07299
Links:
Application Security, Inc advisory: http://www.appsecinc.com/resources/alerts/db2/2008-01.shtml
IBM APAR: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=71&uid=swg21255352#r16
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=71&uid=swg21255607#r4a
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