CVE-2006-6638 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2006-6638

IBM DB2 8.1 before FixPak 14 allows remote attackers to...

Vulnerability Description

IBM DB2 8.1 before FixPak 14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted SQLJRA packet, which causes a NULL pointer dereference in the sqle_db2ra_as_recvrequest function in DB2ENGN.DLL, a different issue than CVE-2006-4257.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

db2 universal database
Vulnerable Versions:
8.1, 8.1.4, 8.1.5, 8.1.6, 8.1.6c, 8.1.7, 8.1.7b, 8.1.8, 8.1.8a, 8.1.9, 8.1.9a, 8.10, 8.12

Timeline

Official Publish: December 19th, 2006
Last Modified: September 16th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.