CVE-2007-4271 (GCVE-0-2007-4271)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-08-18 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:46
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Summary
Directory traversal vulnerability in IBM DB2 UDB 8 before Fixpak 15 and 9.1 before Fixpak 3 allows local users to create arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified environment variable, which is appended to "/tmp/" and used as a log file. NOTE: this issue might be related to symlink following.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-Augus… mailing-listx_refsource_VIM
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2912 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabili… third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25339 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg2… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018581 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://secunia.com/advisories/26471 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
Date Public
2007-08-16 00:00
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