CVE-2007-4271 Information

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in IBM DB2 UDB 8 before Fixpak 15 and 9.1 before Fixpak 3 allows local users to create arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified environment variable which is appended to /tmp/\ and used as a log file. NOTE: this issue might be related to symlink following.

Reference

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=579 http://secunia.com/advisories/26471 http://securitytracker.com/id?1018581 http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001765.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25339 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2912 http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY98210 http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY99261 http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255352 http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607