CVE-2006-4257

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-08-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) before 8.1 FixPak 13 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) by (1) sending the first ACCSEC command without an RDBNAM parameter during the CONNECT process, or (2) sending crafted SQLJRA packet, which results in a null dereference.

Affected products

IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows: 8.0, 8.1, 8.1.4, 8.1.5, 8.1.6, 8.1.6c (+9)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/21550
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24013114
http://www.appsecinc.com/resources/alerts/db2/2006-09-05.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445298/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454307/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19586
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3328
http://secunia.com/advisories/21550
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24013114
http://www.appsecinc.com/resources/alerts/db2/2006-09-05.shtml

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