CVE-2010-3740

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-10-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The Net Search Extender (NSE) implementation in the Text Search component in IBM DB2 UDB 9.5 before FP6a does not properly handle an alphanumeric Fuzzy search, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and system hang) via the db2ext.textSearch function.

Affected products

IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows: 9.5, 9.5-fp1, 9.5-fp2, 9.5-fp2a, 9.5-fp3, 9.5-fp3a (+4)

References

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC66613
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13811
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC66613
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13811

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