SB2016040801 - Denial of service in IBM DB2 LUW
Published: April 8, 2016
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016040801
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Partial DoS
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) DRDA Processing flaw vulnerability (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-0211)
CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption
CVSSv4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause the target service to crash.
A remote authenticated attacker can cause the DB2 service to crash by sending a specially crafted DRDA message to vulnerable server.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in crash of vulnerable service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.