CVE-2005-4737: IBM DB2 Universal Database

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) 820 before ESE AIX 5765F4100 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by "abnormally" terminating a connection, which prevents db2agents from being properly cleared.

Affected products

• IBM DB2 Universal Database: version 8.0 only; version 8.1 only; version 8.1.4 only; version 8.1.5 only; version 8.1.6 only; version 8.1.6c only; …

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.