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TITLE:
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Unspecified Directory Traversal and
Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27542

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27542/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Unknown, DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
IBM Informix Dynamic Server 10.x
http://secunia.com/product/11204/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in IBM Informix Dynamic
Server, one of which has an unknown impact and another can be
exploited to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An unspecified error when using SQ_ONASSIST requests can be
exploited to crash the application on Windows systems.

2) An input validation error when processing the DBLANG environment
variable can be exploited via directory traversal attacks. No further
information is available.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 10.00.xC7W1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
IBM (IC54252 and IC53588):
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27011082

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