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IBM DB2 Shared Library Injection Vulnerability

IBM DB2 ships with a number of shared libraries, stored in a directory owned by the user and group 'bin'. As setuid root utilities are linked to these libraries, their ownership by a user and group of a lower privilege level constitutes a vulnerability. If an attacker can obtain user or group bin privileges, the shared libraries can be overwritten with malicious replacements designed to obtain root privileges from the setuid root utilities that use them.