CVE-2009-4327 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Attackers can cause a denial of service in IBM DB2 by triggering improper memory pool size validation, leading to memory consumption.

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

What is CVE-2009-4327?

CVE-2009-4327 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Db2, published on 16 Dec 2009.

Official description

The Common Code Infrastructure component in IBM DB2 9.5 before FP5 and 9.7 before FP1 does not properly validate the size of a memory pool during a creation attempt, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-4327?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Db2.

How do I fix CVE-2009-4327?

No fix has been published for CVE-2009-4327 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-2009-4327 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-4327 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Ibm Db2 vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-prvm-2m7g-3vrf.

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