Vulnerability CVE-2008-3857
Published: 2008-08-28   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The Base Service Utilities component in IBM DB2 9.1 before Fixpak 5 retains a cleartext password in memory after the database connection that sent the password is fully established, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a memory dump.

Type:

CWE-200

 (Information Exposure)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
IBM -> Db2 universal database 

 References:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45139
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1769
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29601
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1JR27422
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