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CVE-2006-6638

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-12-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

IBM DB2 8.1 before FixPak 14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted SQLJRA packet, which causes a NULL pointer dereference in the sqle_db2ra_as_recvrequest function in DB2ENGN.DLL, a different issue than CVE-2006-4257.

Affected products

• IBM Db2 Universal Database: 8.1, 8.1.4, 8.1.5, 8.1.6, 8.1.6c, 8.1.7 (+7)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/23397
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY91847
• http://www.appsecinc.com/resources/alerts/db2/2006-11-30.shtml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21646
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23397
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY91847
• http://www.appsecinc.com/resources/alerts/db2/2006-11-30.shtml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21646

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