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Buffer Overflow in SYS_CONTEXT() in Oracle 9i Rel.2

Name Buffer Overflow in SYS_CONTEXT() in Oracle9i Rel.2
Systems Affected Oracle9i Rel. 2 (Windows platform only)
Severity Medium Risk
Category Buffer Overflow
Vendor URL http://www.oracle.com/
Author Alexander Kornbrust (ak at red-database-security.com)
Advisory 25 Apr 2005 (V 1.01)
Bugno RDS_20040903_2
Time to fix 364 days


Details
Any valid database user with the possibility to run SQL commands (e.g. via SQL*Plus), can create a buffer overflow by abusing the SYS_CONTEXT()-function. This vulnerability affects only the windows versions of Oracle 9i Rel. 2 (9.2.0.0 - 9.2.0.4).
Oracle 9i Rel. 1 or Oracle 10g are NOT affected.


Oracle 10g is NOT affected.

Workarounds
No workarounds available


Example
SELECT SYS_CONTEXT ('USERENV',
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA')
FROM DUAL;

Patch Information
Please see MetaLink document ID 281189.1 for the patch download procedures and for the Patch Availability Matrix for this Oracle Security Alert.

[metalink.oracle.com]

History
02-sep-2003 Oracle secalert was informed
02-sep-2003 Bug confirmed
31-aug-2004 Oracle published alert 68
25-apr-2005 V.1.01 - Example and time to fix added


© 2005 by Red-Database-Security GmbH - last update 03-nov-2005

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