CVE-2008-3959 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-3959?

CVE-2008-3959 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Db2, published on 9 Sep 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM DB2 UDB 8.1 before FixPak 16, 8.2 before FixPak 9, and 9.1 before FixPak 4a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (instance crash) via a crafted SQLJRA packet within a CONNECT/ATTACH data stream that simulates a V7 client connect/attach request.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-3959?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Db2.

How do I fix CVE-2008-3959?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-3959 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-2008-3959 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-3959 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Db2

• CVE-2012-1797 IBM DB2 9.5 uses world-writable permissions for nodes.reg, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors. Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3731 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3193 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-4335 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2009-3473 Missing authorization in n/a Critical 10.0

All Ibm Db2 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-h5r2-rjjw-28mj.