Re: Strange HPL failure - Sorted!

Not exactly the same as techinfo but www.ibm.com/software/data/support has replaced techinfo more and more Inofmrix content being added all the time. I am not sure this particular article has been added yet. "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message news:<2jgbo6F1163tmU1@uni-berlin.de>... > Thanks Savio > > In fact, we'd run into a known bug. Here's what UK Tech SUpport told us to > do (and it worked): > > With regards to your problem it seems that you may be hitting bug 167408 > Bug: 167408 ONPLOAD RETURNED ERROR ACCESSING TABLE 'SYSDRI', SQL ERROR > 100, ISAM ERROR 0 > Check to see if the following returns the return codes shown below.. > select type from sysmaster:sysdrcb;> returns -1 > select * from sysdri> returns 'no rows found' ('sql 100'). > If they do try the workaround below, you may like to check the sysmaster > table first.. > Workaround: 9322 > echo "INSERT INTO flags_text (tabname, flags, txt) > VALUES ('sysdrcb', -1, 'Not Initialized');"| dbaccess sysmaster > > As a matter of interest, you used to be able to find things like this in > TechInfo. Has there something similar replaced it? > regards > Neil

So bug 156604.. IBM Informix Standard Engine has a security vulnerability that could result in unauthorized access to the root account. Abstract An unauthorized user can cause the sqlexec program to spawn a root-privileged shell and/or cause the sqlexec program to crash with a segmentation fault. http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1004&context=SSGU8G&context=SSVT2J&context=SSGHZP&context=SSGU5Y&context=SSGKNY&context=SSGU5D&context=SSCRW7&uid=swg21116376&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en+en what is the exploit for this then?