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CVE-2007-6053 (GCVE-0-2007-6053)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-11-20 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:54
VLAI
Summary
IBM DB2 UDB 9.1 before Fixpak 4 does not properly handle use of large numbers of file descriptors, which might allow attackers to have an unknown impact involving "memory corruption." NOTE: the vendor description of this issue is too vague to be certain that it is security-related.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2007-11-12 00:00
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