CVE-2009-2858 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2009-2858?

CVE-2009-2858 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Db2, published on 19 Aug 2009.

Official description

Memory leak in the Security component in IBM DB2 8.1 before FP18 on Unix platforms allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors, related to private memory within the DB2 memory structure.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-2858?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Db2.

How do I fix CVE-2009-2858?

No fix has been published for CVE-2009-2858 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-2009-2858 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-2858 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-h6wg-r7g4-rfmh.