CVE-2007-5757 Information

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.

Reference

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/db2/fixes/english-us/aparlist/db2_v82/APARLIST.TXT http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=653 http://securitytracker.com/id?1019319 http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ03546