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Security Vulnerability in CLR stored procedure deployment from IBM Database Add-Ins for Visual Studio
September 15th 2008
Risk Level:
High
Affected versions:
IBM DB2 Database Server
v9.1 and 9.5 on
Windows platform.
Remote exploitable:
Yes (Authentication to
Database Server is
needed)
Credits:
This vulnerability was
discovered and
researched by Martin
Rakhmanov of Application
Security Inc.
Details:
It is possible to use the CLR stored
procedure deployment feature of IBM Database
add-ins for Visual Studio to produce a privilege
escalation or denial of service on a DB2 server.
Impact:
Any low privileged user can exploit
this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code.
Vendor Status:
Vendor was contacted and
a patch was released.
Fix:
To fix the problem apply
the FP5(v9.1)and FP2(v9.5):
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg24019146
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=71&uid=swg21287889
CVE:
CVE-2008-3852
APAR:
JR28432 - V9.1 FP5
JR28431 - V9.5 FP2
Timeline:
Vendor Notification -
9/11/2007
Vendor Response -
11/14/2007
Fix - 8/28/2008
Public Disclosure -
9/15/2008
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