National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3854
Original release date:08/28/2008
Last revised:09/24/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in IBM DB2 9.1 before Fixpak 5 and 9.5 before Fixpak 1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system outage) via vectors related to (1) use of XQuery to issue statements; the (2) XMLQUERY, (3) XMLEXISTS, and (4) XMLTABLE statements; and the (5) sqlrlaka function.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: XF
Name: ibm-db2-multiple-bo(42935)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: ibm-db2-sqlrlaka-bo(42930)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 29601
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607
Type: Patch Information
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ18434
Type: Patch Information
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ16346
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30558
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080916 Team SHATTER Security Advisory: IBM DB2 UDB - Buffer overrun in XMLQUERY and XMLEXISTS
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1769
Type: Advisory
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IZ18431