CVE-2007-1027

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-02-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Certain setuid DB2 binaries in IBM DB2 before 9 Fix Pack 2 for Linux and Unix allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the DB2DIAG.LOG temporary file.

Affected products

IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows: 9.0

References

http://osvdb.org/34024
http://secunia.com/advisories/24213
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY94817
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22614
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017665
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017695
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0652
http://osvdb.org/34024
http://secunia.com/advisories/24213
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY94817
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22614
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017665

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