CVE-2008-3857 Information

Description

The Base Service Utilities component in IBM DB2 9.1 before Fixpak 5 retains a cleartext password in memory after the database connection that sent the password is fully established which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a memory dump.

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29601 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1769 http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1JR27422 http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45139