Vulnerability in Ibm Db2 Universal Database

CVE-2007-5757

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.

EPSS: 0.003 (25.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Ibm Db2_universal_database — versions 9.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_IDEFENSE, Patch, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_AIXAPAR)