Security Advisory

CVE-2007-5757

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-02-12 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-16 17:08:00
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.