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MA-162.062009: MyCERT Alert - Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM DB2

Initial Release: 05 June 2009

1.0 Introduction

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in the following IBM DB2 product:

  • IBM DB2 LDAP Authentication Bug
  • IBM DB2 3rd-Party JDBC Driver IPv6 Bug

2.0 Impact

2.1 IBM DB2 LDAP Authentication Bug

An attacker who successfully exploits the LDAP Authentication bug can remotely connect to the target database without any authentication.

2.2 IBM DB2 3rd-Party JDBC Driver IPv6 Bug

An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability can invoke a third-party DRDA client to connect to the target database server and use the IPv6 address format of the correlation token to cause the target database to crash.

3.0 Affected Products

The detail list of the vulnerable products and versions are as below:

  • IBM DB2 v9.1 prior to FixPak 7
  • IBM DB2 v9.5 prior to FixPak 4

4.0 Recommendation

The solutions provided by IBM regarding these vulnerabilities:

4.1 IBM DB2 LDAP Authentication Bug

4.2 IBM DB2 3rd-Party JDBC Driver IPv6 Bug

  • Update to IBM DB2 UDB Version 9.5, FixPak 4

  • Alternatively, users can use DB2 JDBC driver or older third-party JDBC driver, which does not use IPV6 address in the correlation token

MyCERT generally advise users of this product to keep themselves updated with the latest security announcements by the vendor.

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