SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA27251

VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/27251/

CRITICAL: Moderately critical

IMPACT: Unknown, Manipulation of data, Exposure of sensitive information, DoS

WHERE: >From remote

REVISION: 1.1 originally posted 2007-10-17

SOFTWARE:
Oracle Database 10.x - http://secunia.com/product/3387/
Oracle9i Database Enterprise Edition - http://secunia.com/product/359/
Oracle9i Database Standard Edition - http://secunia.com/product/358/
Oracle Application Server 10g - http://secunia.com/product/3190/
Oracle Collaboration Suite 10.x - http://secunia.com/product/2450/
Oracle E-Business Suite 12.x - http://secunia.com/product/13979/
Oracle E-Business Suite 11i - http://secunia.com/product/442/
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10.x - http://secunia.com/product/2565/
Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Tools 8.x - http://secunia.com/product/9411/
Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management 8.x - http://secunia.com/product/13980/
Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management 9.x - http://secunia.com/product/14817/

DESCRIPTION: Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported for various Oracle products. Some have unknown impacts, other can be exploited to disclose sensitive information, conduct SQL injection attacks, or to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). Details are available for the following vulnerabilities:

1) An input validation error exists within the GIOP service in Oracle TNS Listener when processing connect GIOP packets. This can be exploited to crash the TNS Listener or to disclose potential sensitive information via a specially crafted packet.

2) Certain input processed by the CTX_DOC package is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code via the THEMES, GIST, TOKENS, FILTER, HIGHLIGHT, and MARKUP procedures.

3) An error in Oracle RDBMS when processing TNS data packets can be exploited to cause high CPU usage via a specially crafted packet sequence.

4) Certain input processed by the LT package is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries in the FINDRICSET package. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code via the FINDRICSET procedure.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows an attacker to gain "SYS" privileges.

5) An error in the Oracle XML DB ftp service leads to incorrect "USERID" entries in the audit trail.

SOLUTION: Apply patches (see the vendor's advisory).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits:
* Esteban Martinez Fayo, Application Security, Inc.
* Johannes Greil of SEC Consult
* Joxean Koret via Tipping Point's Zero Day Initiative
* Alexander Kornbrust, Red Database Security GmbH
* David Litchfield, Next Generation Security Software Ltd.

CHANGELOG: 2007-10-17: Added vulnerabilities #1 to #5.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Oracle:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuoct2007.html


Next Generation Security Software Ltd.:
http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/high-risk-vulnerability-in-oracle-tns-listener/
http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/high-risk-vulnerability-in-oracle-ctx-doc/
http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/high-risk-vulnerability-in-oracle-rdbms/
http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/high-risk-vulnerability-in-oracle-workspace-manager/
http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/high-risk-vulnerability-in-oracle-xmldb-ftp-service/