CVE-2007-4273

MEDIUM 4.6CVE-2007-4273 · Published 18/08/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-4273 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.6) vulnerability affecting db2 universal database (ibm).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.41%, higher than 35.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
db2 universal database ibm	`≤ 8.0≤ 9.1`	No fix yet

Description

IBM DB2 UDB 8 before Fixpak 15 and 9.1 before Fixpak 3 allows local users to create arbitrary directories and execute arbitrary code via a "crafted localized message file" that enables a format string attack, possibly involving the (1) OSSEMEMDBG or (2) TRC_LOG_FILE environment variable in db2licd (db2licm).

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

db2 universal database

ibm

≤ 8.0≤ 9.1

No fix yet

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