CVE-2005-4736 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 6.8 Published Updated

Remote authenticated users can cause a denial of service via disk consumption in IBM DB2 UDB through a specific hash join operation.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2005-4736?

CVE-2005-4736 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Db2 Universal Database, published on 19 Mar 2006. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) 820 before 8.2 FP10 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via a hash join (hsjn) that triggers an infinite loop in sqlri_hsjnFlushBlocks.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-4736?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Db2 Universal Database.

How do I fix CVE-2005-4736?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-4736 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2005-4736 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-4736 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Ibm Db2 Universal Database vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-hhcw-hw4m-h4v7.

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