CVE-2008-3959: IBM DB2

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM DB2 UDB 8.1 before FixPak 16, 8.2 before FixPak 9, and 9.1 before FixPak 4a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (instance crash) via a crafted SQLJRA packet within a CONNECT/ATTACH data stream that simulates a V7 client connect/attach request.

Affected products

• IBM DB2: up to and including 8.1; up to and including 8.2; version 8.1 only; version 8.2 only

Published 2008-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.