AW: Silently fixed security bugs in Oracle Critical Patch Update July 2005
Hi David and all,
You are right.
Bug 2576249 (DAV_PUBLIC) was discovered by the Litchfield brothers and is
already fixed with Alert 52.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I am not aware that the other bugs (Memory leak,
webcache SSL 40bit encryption, oraaltpassword ...) are already covered by
another Oracle security alert.
Cheers
Alexander Kornbrust
Red-Database-Security GmbH
http://www.red-database-security.com
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Von: David Litchfield [mailto:davidl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Gesendet: Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 19:17
An: Kornbrust, Alexander; bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: Re: Silently fixed security bugs in Oracle Critical Patch Update July
2005
Hi Alex and all,
> After reading the patch documentation and some tests with the CPU July
> 2005 I found out that Oracle fixed some security bugs silently without
> mention these bugs in their current risk matrix.
>
> Detailed information about most of these bugs are not available via
> Metalink but in many cases the description is sufficient for a malicious
> attacker
> (e.g. "/DAV_PUBLIC IS NOT PROTECTED BY DEFAULT ENABLING MALITIOUS USER TO
> FILL IT UP")
>
> For Mod_Oradav 9.0.2.3:
> 2576249 - /DAV_PUBLIC IS NOT PROTECTED BY DEFAULT ENABLING MALITIOUS USER
> TO FILL IT UP
> 2544464 - ORAALTPASSWORD SHOULD BE ENCRYPTED AND NOT JUST OBFUSCATED
I don't think this one was silently fixed - see
http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2003/Feb/1006098.html
Cheers,
David Litchfield
NGSSoftware Ltd
http://www.ngssoftware.com/