Directory traversal vulnerability in IBM DB2 UDB 8 before Fixpak 15 and 9.1 before Fixpak 3 allows local users to create arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified environment variable, which is appended to "/tmp/" and used as a log file. NOTE: this issue might be related to symlink following.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-4254 Directory traversal vulnerability in IBM DB2 UDB 8 before Fixpak 15 and 9.1 before Fixpak 3 allows local users to create arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified environment variable, which is appended to "/tmp/" and used as a log file. NOTE: this issue might be related to symlink following.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T14:46:39.432Z

Reserved: 2007-08-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2007-4271

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2007-08-18T21:17:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2007-4271

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