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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2014.1442 Security Bulletin: IBM DB2 Accessories Suite for Linux, UNIX and Windows denial of service vulneribility (CVE-2013-5879) 25 August 2014 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: IBM DB2 Publisher: IBM Operating System: AIX HP-UX Linux variants Solaris Windows Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote/Unauthenticated Denial of Service -- Existing Account Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2013-5879 Reference: ASB-2014.0005 ESB-2014.1267 ESB-2014.1264 ESB-2014.1230 ESB-2014.0545 ESB-2014.0262 Original Bulletin: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21682096 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- Security Bulletin: IBM DB2 Accessories Suite for Linux, UNIX and Windows denial of service vulneribility (CVE-2013-5879) Security Bulletin Document information More support for: DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows DB2 Text Search Software version: 10.1, 10.5 Operating system(s): AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows Reference #: 1682096 Modified date: 2014-08-19 Summary A local attacker could cause denial of service or remote attacker can execute code on server installations. Vulnerability Details CVE ID: CVE-2013-5879 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability in the IBM DB2 Accessories suite for Linux, Unix and Windows could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service or possibly be used by a remote attacker to execute code on server installations. CVSS Base Score: 6.8 CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/90282 CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) Affected Products and Versions IBM DB2 10.1, Accessories Suite for Linux, UNIX and Windows IBM DB2 Accessories Suite for Linux, UNIX and Windows 10.5 Remediation/Fixes Check the accSuiteRelease.properties file located in <DB2_install_dir>/db2tss. If the accSuiteRelease.properties file does not exist, or if the properties file exists, but the version number in the properties file is less than V2.1.0, reinstallation of the latest release is necessary: 1. Download the Accessories Suite and extract the installer. 2. Stop the text search service: db2ts stop for text 3. Run the installer to upgrade your existing setup For more information see: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v10r1/topic/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.ts.doc/doc/t0054804.html Workarounds and Mitigations None known References Complete CVSS Guide On-line Calculator V2 Related information IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog Acknowledgement None Change History Aug-20-2014: Original Version Published *The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin. 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