CVE-2023-38740 IBM Db2 denial of service

What is CVE-2023-38740?

CVE-2023-38740 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ibm Db2, published on 16 Oct 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (includes Db2 Connect Server) 11.5 is vulnerable to a denial of service with a specially crafted SQL statement. IBM X-Force ID: 262613.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-38740?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Db2.

How do I fix CVE-2023-38740?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-38740 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-2023-38740 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-38740 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-99vx-9c28-97p2.