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CVE-2007-5757

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.9 Published: 2008-02-13 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Ibm Db2 Universal Database

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References