CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-5757
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-02-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in db2pd in IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) 8 before FixPak 16 and 9 before Fix Pack 4 allows local users to gain root privileges via a modified DB2INSTANCE environment variable that points to a malicious library. NOTE: this might be the same issue as CVE-2008-0697.
Affected configurations
• ibm db2 universal database (<= 8.0)
• ibm db2 universal database 9.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/db2/fixes/english-us/aparlist/db2_v82/APARLIST.TXT ftp.software.ibm.com
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=653 Patch
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1019319 securitytracker.com
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ03546 www-1.ibm.com
- ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/db2/fixes/english-us/aparlist/db2_v82/APARLIST.TXT ftp.software.ibm.com
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=653 Patch
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1019319 securitytracker.com
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ03546 www-1.ibm.com