CVE-2007-4271
lowpriority · track · 8EPSS 0.005 · 41 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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 (3)
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references (20)
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- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=579enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26471enisa_euvd
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018581enisa_euvd
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY98210enisa_euvd
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY99261enisa_euvd
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255352enisa_euvd
- http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607enisa_euvd
- http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001765.htmlenisa_euvd
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