FKIE_CVE-2007-5757

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-02-13 00:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:46
Severity
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.
References
cve@mitre.orgftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/db2/fixes/english-us/aparlist/db2_v82/APARLIST.TXT
cve@mitre.orghttp://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=653Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://securitytracker.com/id?1019319
cve@mitre.orghttp://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ03546
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/db2/fixes/english-us/aparlist/db2_v82/APARLIST.TXT
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=653Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://securitytracker.com/id?1019319
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ03546
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ibm db2_universal_database *
ibm db2_universal_database 9.0
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