Vigil@nce - IBM DB2: denial of service via DRDA
June 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can send a malicious DRDA packet to IBM DB2, in order
to trigger a denial of service.
Impacted products: DB2 UDB.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 29/04/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The IBM DB2 product has a service to manage received DRDA messages.
However, when a malicious packet is received, a fatal error occurs.
An attacker can therefore send a malicious DRDA packet to IBM DB2,
in order to trigger a denial of service.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/IBM-DB2-denial-of-service-via-DRDA-19484