CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3857
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-08-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
The Base Service Utilities component in IBM DB2 9.1 before Fixpak 5 retains a cleartext password in memory after the database connection that sent the password is fully established, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a memory dump.
Affected configurations
• ibm db2 universal database 9.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1JR27422 www-1.ibm.com
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607 Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29601 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1769 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45139 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1JR27422 www-1.ibm.com
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607 Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29601 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1769 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45139 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com