CVE-2009-1906 Memory corruption in n/a

Medium 4.3 Published Updated

Remote attackers can crash IBM DB2 via a malformed IPv6 address in the APPID string, causing denial of service.

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

What is CVE-2009-1906?

CVE-2009-1906 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Ibm Db2, published on 3 Jun 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The DRDA Services component in IBM DB2 9.1 before FP7 and 9.5 before FP4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via an IPv6 address in the correlation token in the APPID string, as demonstrated by an APPID string sent by the third-party DataDirect JDBC driver 3.7.32.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-1906?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Db2.

How do I fix CVE-2009-1906?

No fix has been published for CVE-2009-1906 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2009-1906 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-1906 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Ibm Db2 vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-rhx4-qcjj-rcmx.

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