VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5995

high
Published 2016-10-01 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.3

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in IBM DB2 9.7 through FP11, 10.1 through FP5, 10.5 before FP8, and 11.1 GA on Linux, AIX, and HP-UX allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse library that is accessed by a setuid or setgid program.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
72%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
linux linux-kernelnot-affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmdb29.7
ibm ibmdb29.7.0.1
ibm ibmdb29.7.0.2
ibm ibmdb29.7.0.3
ibm ibmdb29.7.0.4
ibm ibmdb29.7.0.5
ibm ibmdb29.7.0.6
ibm ibmdb29.7.0.7
ibm ibmdb29.7.0.8
ibm ibmdb29.7.0.9
ibm ibmdb29.7.0.10
ibm ibmdb29.7.0.11
ibm ibmdb210.1
ibm ibmdb210.1.0.1
ibm ibmdb210.1.0.2
ibm ibmdb210.1.0.3
ibm ibmdb210.1.0.4
ibm ibmdb210.1.0.5
ibm ibmdb210.5
ibm ibmdb210.5.0.1
ibm ibmdb210.5.0.2
ibm ibmdb210.5.0.3
ibm ibmdb210.5.0.4
ibm ibmdb210.5.0.5
ibm ibmdb210.5.0.6
ibm ibmdb210.5.0.7
ibm ibmdb211.1.0.0
ibm ibmdb2_connect9.7
ibm ibmdb2_connect9.7.0.1
ibm ibmdb2_connect9.7.0.2
ibm ibmdb2_connect9.7.0.3
ibm ibmdb2_connect9.7.0.4
ibm ibmdb2_connect9.7.0.5
ibm ibmdb2_connect9.7.0.6
ibm ibmdb2_connect9.7.0.7
ibm ibmdb2_connect9.7.0.8
ibm ibmdb2_connect9.7.0.9
ibm ibmdb2_connect9.7.0.10
ibm ibmdb2_connect9.7.0.11
ibm ibmdb2_connect10.1
ibm ibmdb2_connect10.1.0.1
ibm ibmdb2_connect10.1.0.2
ibm ibmdb2_connect10.1.0.3
ibm ibmdb2_connect10.1.0.4
ibm ibmdb2_connect10.1.0.5
ibm ibmdb2_connect10.5
ibm ibmdb2_connect10.5.0.1
ibm ibmdb2_connect10.5.0.2
ibm ibmdb2_connect10.5.0.3
ibm ibmdb2_connect10.5.0.4
ibm ibmdb2_connect10.5.0.5
ibm ibmdb2_connect10.5.0.6
ibm ibmdb2_connect10.5.0.7
ibm ibmdb2_connect11.1.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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