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TITLE:
DB2 Universal Database Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23397

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23397/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
DB2 Universal Database 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/857/

DESCRIPTION:
Vivek Rathod has reported a vulnerability in DB2, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference error
within "sqle_db2ra_as_recvrequest" and can be exploited to crash the
DB2 instance via a specially crafted SQLJRA packet.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 8.1 FixPak 14 (8.2 FixPak 7).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Vivek Rathod, Application Security Inc.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Application Security Inc.
http://www.appsecinc.com/resources/alerts/db2/2006-11-30.shtml

IBM:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY91847
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY86917

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