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TITLE:
IBM DB2 Denial of Service and LDAP Authentication Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35235

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35235/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue and a vulnerability have been reported in IBM DB2,
which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions or to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An unspecified error in the processing of IPv6 addresses in the
correlation token can be exploited to cause a crash.

2) The security issue is caused due to an error when using LDAP-based
authentication.

For more information see vulnerability #7 in:
SA31787

SOLUTION:
Update to version 9.5 Fixpak 4 or 9.1 Fixpak 7.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
IBM (JR32268, JR32272, IZ38874, IZ36683)
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21386689
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21293566

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA31787:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31787/

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