Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in IBM DB2, which can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
IBM DB2 Authorisation Bypass Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24283
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24283/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass
WHERE:
>From local network
SOFTWARE:
IBM DB2 for Linux UNIX and Windows 9.x
http://secunia.com/product/13504/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in IBM DB2, which can be exploited
by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions.
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error, which can be
exploited to bypass DB2 authorisation checks and perform "update" and
"delete" actions on a table on which the user only has "select"
privileges.
The vulnerability is reported in version 9.1 GA through 9.1 FP1.
SOLUTION:
Update to version version 9.1 FP2.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1JR25941
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