CVE-2008-4691 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-4691?

CVE-2008-4691 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Db2, published on 22 Oct 2008.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the SQLNLS_UNPADDEDCHARLEN function in the New Compiler (aka Starburst derived compiler) component in the server in IBM DB2 9.1 before FP6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation and trap) via unknown vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-4691?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Db2.

How do I fix CVE-2008-4691?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-4691 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-2008-4691 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-4691 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
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Also known as GHSA-vx9c-gfgq-rqv8.