SB2018070607 - Privilege escalation in IBM DB2
Published: July 6, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018070607
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Deserialization of untrusted data (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-1677)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The weakness exists due to an object deserialization error in the IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ. A local attacker can modify the contents of a file on the target system ('/tmp/connlicj.bin' by default) and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.