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CVE-2008-3856

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-08-28 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The routine infrastructure component in IBM DB2 8 before FP17, 9.1 before FP5, and 9.5 before FP1 on Unix and Linux does not change the ownership of the db2fmp process, which has unknown impact and attack vectors.

Affected products

• IBM Db2 Universal Database: through 8; through 9.1; 8-fp1, 8-fp10, 8-fp11, 8-fp12, 8-fp13, 8-fp14 (+22)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/29784
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31787
• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ19155
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ20350
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IZ20352
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29601
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31058
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45140

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