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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1979

Original release date:10/22/2009

Last revised:11/17/2009

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Unspecified vulnerability in the Network Authentication component in Oracle Database 10.1.0.5 and 10.2.0.4 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the October 2009 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from an independent researcher that this is related to improper validation of the AUTH_SESSKEY parameter length that leads to arbitrary code execution.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:10.0 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 10.0

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service

Per: http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuoct2009.html # The CVSS Base Score is 10.0 only for Windows. For Linux, Unix and other platforms, the CVSS Base Score is 7.5, and the impacts for Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability are Partial+.

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA09-294A

Name: TA09-294A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-294A.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuoct2009.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuoct2009.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1023057

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023057

External Source: BID

Name: 36747