FKIE_CVE-2007-4271
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2007-08-18 21:17 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:43
Severity
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibm | db2_universal_database | * | |
| ibm | db2_universal_database | * |
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