SB2018070607 - Privilege escalation in IBM DB2

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SB2018070607 - Privilege escalation in IBM DB2

Published: July 6, 2018

Security Bulletin ID SB2018070607
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Local access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Deserialization of untrusted data (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-1677)

CWE-ID: CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:U/U:Clear


The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists due to an object deserialization error in the IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ. A local attacker can modify the contents of a file on the target system ('/tmp/connlicj.bin' by default) and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References