CVE-2018-1427: IBM DB2

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM GSKit (IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, and 11.1) contains several environment variables that a local attacker could overflow and cause a denial of service. IBM X-Force ID: 139072.

Affected products

• IBM DB2: version 9.7 only; version 10.1 only; version 10.5 only; version 11.1 only

Published 2018-03-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.