Detections
Analytics
CVE-2007-5757
high
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.
References
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ03546
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019319
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=653