full-disclosure - Memory leak in DB2 sqlcctcpgetbuffer process, vulnerability or not?

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Message-ID: <20050509151923.E44971EE15@greed.dyndns.org>
Date: Mon May  9 16:19:33 2005
From: greed at pobox.com (Graham Reed)
Subject: Memory leak in DB2 sqlcctcpgetbuffer
	process, vulnerability or not?

Henk van de Tillaerdt writes: 

> Sun released an alert about a memory leak in the sqlcctcpgetbuffer
> process of DB2:

> I'm wondering, is this a vulnerability or not?

Can't answer your other questions, but memory leaks lead to exhausted memory 
which gives you a denial-of-service attack.