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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 13, 2008· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2007-5757

CVE-2007-5757

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in db2pd in IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) 8 before FixPak 16 and 9 before Fix Pack 4 allows local users to gain root privileges via a modified DB2INSTANCE environment variable that points to a malicious library. NOTE: this might be the same issue as CVE-2008-0697.

Affected products

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  • IBM/Db2 Universal Database3 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:9.0:fixpak_3a:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:9.0:fixpak_3a:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:*:fixpak_15:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=8.0
    • (no CPE)range: < FixPak 16 (v8), < Fix Pack 4 (v9)

Patches

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