CVE-2007-5757 (GCVE-0-2007-5757)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-02-12 23:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:08
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/db2/fixes/… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019319 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabili… third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSE
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
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