Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in GSKit affect IBM Spectrum Scale used by DB2® pureScale™ (CVE-2018-1431, CVE-2018-1447, CVE-2017-3732, CVE-2016-0705)

Summary DB2 LUW is affected by a vulnerability in IBM® Spectrum Scale Version V4.2 and V4.1 that is used by DB2® pureScale™ Feature on AIX and Linux. IBM Spectrum Scale is previously known as General Parallel File System GPFS. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1431 DESCRIPTION: A vulnerabilit...

Online upgrade of Spectrum Scale security update packages for a Db2 pureScale cluster

Summary While the best practice for upgrading Spectrum Scale package level is through the Db2 fixpack, updating Spectrum Scale security update packages outlined in Db2 Security bulletins requires a manual installation procedure. This document contains instructions on how to apply Spectrum Scale...

CVE-2013-6717: Undefined Security Weakness

The OLAP query engine in IBM DB2 and DB2 Connect 9.7 through FP9, 9.8 through FP5, 10.1 through FP3, and 10.5 through FP2, and the DB2 pureScale Feature 9.8 for Enterprise Server Edition, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service database outage and deactivation via unspecifi...

PT-2013-5558

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions IBM DB2 versions 9.5 through 10.5 IBM DB2 Connect versions 9.5 through 10.5 IBM DB2 pureScale Feature 9.8 for Enterprise Server Edition Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service via unspecified vector...