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CVE-2008-3857

The Base Service Utilities component in IBM DB2 9.1 before Fixpak 5 retains a cleartext password in memory after the database connection that sent the password…

Impact

The Base Service Utilities component in IBM DB2 9.1 before Fixpak 5 retains a cleartext password in memory after the database connection that sent the password is fully established, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a memory dump.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
IbmDb2 Universal Database
Version 9.1

Weakness classification

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