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Denial of Service Condition in IBM DB2 Universal Database Server
A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in IBM’s DB2 Universal Database server.
Ken Pfeil
July 17, 2001
1 Min Read
Reported July 12, 2001, by GillesLami.
VERSION AFFECTED
IBM’s DB2 Universal Database for Windows 2000, Windows NT
DESCRIPTION
ADenial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in IBM’s DB2 Universal Databaseserver. An attacker can crash the serverby establishing a Telnet connection to the ports that the services“db2ccs.exe” and “db2jds.exe” are running on (typically ports 6790 and6789) and sending 1 byte of information.
VENDOR RESPONSE
Thevendor, IBM, has acknowledged thisvulnerability and will release a patch for version 7 and above.
CREDIT
Discovered by GillesLami.
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