CVE-2008-3960 describes an unspecified vulnerability in the JDBC Applet Server Service (db2jds) of IBM DB2 UDB version 8 prior to Fixpak 17. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by sending "malicious packets," causing the service to crash. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it indicates a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:*:fp16:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:8.2:fp1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:8.2:fp10:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2_universal_database:8.2:fp11:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.