Security Bulletin: IBM® Db2® is vulnerable to denial of service (CVE-2020-4135).

Security Bulletin

Summary

Db2 is vulnerable to a denial of service. Db2 could allow an attacker to send specially crafted packets to the Db2 server to cause excessive memory usage and cause Db2 to terminate abnormally.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2020-4135
DESCRIPTION: IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes DB2 Connect Server) could allow an unauthenticated user to send specially crafted packets to cause a denial of service from excessive memory usage.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/173806 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

All fix pack levels of IBM Db2 V9.7, V10.1, V10.5, V11.1, and V11.5 editions on all platforms are affected.

Remediation/Fixes

Customers running any vulnerable fixpack level of an affected Program, V9.7, V10.1, V10.5, V11.1, V11.5 can download the special build containing the interim fix for this issue from Fix Central. These special builds are available based on the most recent fixpack level for each impacted release: V9.7 FP11, V10.1 FP6, V10.5 FP10, V11.1 FP5 V11.5 GA. They can be applied to any affected fixpack level of the appropriate release to remediate this vulnerability.

Release	Fixed in fix pack	APAR	Download URL
V9.7	TBD	IT31523	Special Build for V9.7 FP11: AIX 64-bit HP-UX 64-bit Linux 32-bit, x86-32 Linux 64-bit, x86-64 Linux 64-bit, POWER™ big endian Linux 64-bit, System z®, System z9® or zSeries® Solaris 64-bit, SPARC Solaris 64-bit, x86-64 Windows 32-bit, x86 Windows 64-bit, x86
V10.1	TBD	IT31522	Special Build for V10.1 FP6: AIX 64-bit HP-UX 64-bit Linux 32-bit, x86-32 Linux 64-bit, x86-64 Linux 64-bit, POWER™ big endian Linux 64-bit, System z®, System z9® or zSeries® Solaris 64-bit, SPARC Solaris 64-bit, x86-64 Windows 32-bit, x86 Windows 64-bit, x86
V10.5	TBD	IT31517	Special Build for V10.5 FP10: AIX 64-bit HP-UX 64-bit Linux 32-bit, x86-32 Linux 64-bit, x86-64 Linux 64-bit, POWER™ big endian Linux 64-bit, POWER™ little endian Linux 64-bit, System z®, System z9® or zSeries® Solaris 64-bit, SPARC Solaris 64-bit, x86-64 Windows 32-bit, x86 Windows 64-bit, x86 Inspur
V11.1	v11.1.4FP6	IT31521	Build for v11.1.4FP6 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6427871
V11.5	TBD	IT31520	Special Build for V11.5 GA: AIX 64-bit Linux 32-bit, x86-32 Linux 64-bit, x86-64 Linux 64-bit, POWER™ little endian Linux 64-bit, System z®, System z9® or zSeries® Windows 32-bit, x86 Windows 64-bit, x86

Note: Windows 32-bit and 64-bit links for Db2 V9.7 and V10.1 will be published by March, 2020.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Acknowledgement

Change History

10 March 2021: Replaced Special Build urls with the 11.1.4FP6 url
18 Feb 2020: Initial Publication

*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.

Disclaimer

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Security Bulletin: IBM® Db2® is vulnerable to denial of service (CVE-2020-4135).