CVE-2010-3740: IBM DB2

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Net Search Extender (NSE) implementation in the Text Search component in IBM DB2 UDB 9.5 before FP6a does not properly handle an alphanumeric Fuzzy search, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and system hang) via the db2ext.textSearch function.

Affected products

• IBM DB2: version 9.5 only

Published 2010-10-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.