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Vigil@nce: IBM DB2, heap overflow via REPEAT

February 2010 by Vigil@nce

SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

An authenticated attacker can use the REPEAT() function, in order
to generate an overflow, leading to a denial of service or to code
execution with database privileges.

Severity: 2/4

Consequences: privileged access/rights, denial of service of
service

Provenance: user account

Means of attack: 1 attack

Ability of attacker: technician (2/4)

Confidence: unique source (2/5)

Diffusion of the vulnerable configuration: high (3/3)

Creation date: 28/01/2010

IMPACTED PRODUCTS

 IBM DB2 UDB

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

The SQL REPEAT() function generates a character string, which is
built by repeating a pattern. For example, to obtain "HelloHello" :
SELECT REPEAT( ’Hello’, 2 )

IBM DB2 checks that the size of the string is not too long.
However, by using a sub-call, the size can become over 2^32, and
forces the allocation of a short memory area, and then a heap
overflow.

An authenticated attacker can therefore use the REPEAT() function,
in order to generate an overflow, leading to a denial of service
or to code execution with database privileges.

CHARACTERISTICS

Identifiers: BID-37976, VIGILANCE-VUL-9387

http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/IBM-DB2-heap-overflow-via-REPEAT-9387


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