CVE-2012-2180 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Distributed Relational Database Architecture (DRDA) module of IBM DB2 versions 9.7 (before FP6) and 9.8 (before FP5). This flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to trigger a NULL pointer dereference, leading to resource consumption or a daemon crash, by sending a specially crafted request. While the attack complexity is medium, the potential impact is limited to availability, resulting in a CVSS score of 4.3. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
9.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:9.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.7.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:9.7.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.7.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:9.7.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.7.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:9.7.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.7.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:db2:9.7.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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