Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 18, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2007-4271
CVE-2007-4271
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in IBM DB2 UDB 8 before Fixpak 15 and 9.1 before Fixpak 3 allows local users to create arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified environment variable, which is appended to "/tmp/" and used as a log file. NOTE: this issue might be related to symlink following.
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Affected products
3cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:*:fp14:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:*:fp14:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=8.0
- cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:*:*:fp2:*:*:*:*:*range: <=9.1
Patches
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References
10- secunia.com/advisories/26471nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wssnvdPatch
- labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.phpnvd
- securitytracker.com/idnvd
- www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wssnvd
- www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wssnvd
- www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wssnvd
- www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001765.htmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/25339nvd
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2912nvd
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