PT-2006-7240 · Ibm · Db2

Published 2006-12-19 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2006-6638

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions IBM DB2 version 8.1 before FixPak 14

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted SQLJRA packet. This packet causes a NULL pointer dereference in the sqle db2ra as recvrequest function in DB2ENGN.DLL.

Recommendations For IBM DB2 version 8.1, apply FixPak 14 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the sqle db2ra as recvrequest function in DB2ENGN.DLL until the fix is applied.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-6638

Affected Products

Db2

References · 5

• http://secunia.com/advisories/23397 · Vendor Advisory
• http://appsecinc.com/resources/alerts/db2/2006-11-30.shtml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6638 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/21646 · Patch
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY91847 · Patch, Vendor Advisory