Directory traversal vulnerability in IBM DB2 UDB 8 before Fixpak 15 and 9.1 before Fixpak 3 allows local users to create arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an unspecified environment variable, which is appended to "/tmp/" and used as a log file. NOTE: this issue might be related to symlink following.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4271
• http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=579
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26471
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1018581
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY98210
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY99261
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255352
• http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21255607
• http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-August/001765.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25339
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2912