National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3857
Original release date:08/28/2008
Last revised:09/24/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: ibm-db2-baseservices-info-disclosure(45139)
External Source: BID
Name: 29601
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1769
Type: Advisory
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: JR27422