I got an email from Jens-Uwe Peterson of http://www.trivadis.com - (broken link) Trivadis GmbH this evening to tell me of a paper written by one of his colleagues Dirk Nachbar who has studied the desname bug in detail and has provided a workable solution for it. His paper is titled http://www.trivadis.com/Images/OASSecurityHoleE_11092005_tcm17-14060.pdf - (broken link)A security hole in Oracle application server (reports) and how to fix it.
This is the bug whereby the desname parameter can be used to overwrite any system file. This is a great paper and well worth reading if you have or run Oracle Reports. Dirk has studied the issue in great detail and has proposed a sound solution using mod_rewrite rules.
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September 2005
- 0rm's Oracle password cracker orabf has been updated - 09/01/2005 by 09/01/2005
- CPU July 2005 patch set for Application Server Windows 9.0.2.3 has a problem - 09/03/2005 by 09/03/2005
- Security firm considers changing its policy on public disclosure of security vulnerabilities - 09/04/2005 by 09/04/2005
- Wifred notes that Patch 9.0.4.2.0 has a bug in Oracle forms - 09/05/2005 by 09/05/2005
- archivelog mode - or not? - 09/06/2005 by 09/06/2005
- jDUL / DUDE (Database Unloading by Data Extraction) - an alternative to DUL - 09/07/2005 by 09/07/2005
- Nice paper by KK Mookhey and Nilesh Burghate - Detection of SQL Injection and Cross-site Scripting Attacks - 09/09/2005 by 09/09/2005
- Amis talks about the need to remove USER from PL/SQL and SQL code - 09/12/2005 by 09/12/2005
- A small correction to a post about DBMS_SYSTEM.KSDDDT - 09/13/2005 by 09/13/2005
- Alex has released details about a common SQL Injection vulnerability in Oracle reports - 09/14/2005 by 09/14/2005
- Oracle Locks Up 'Federated' App Server - 09/15/2005 by 09/15/2005
- On Security, Is Oracle the Next Microsoft? - 09/17/2005 by 09/17/2005
- Some testing of orabf (Oracle password cracker) speed by Marcel-Jan - 09/19/2005 by 09/19/2005
- Oracle Proxy Users - 09/21/2005 by 09/21/2005
- Meet the experts (Oracle Security) at Oracle Open World - an open standard for securing Oracle - 09/24/2005 by 09/24/2005
- A new paper on a security hole in Application Server Control - 09/25/2005 by 09/25/2005
- Another Larry news article on security from OOW - 09/26/2005 by 09/26/2005
- Quite a nice post about debugging with DBMS_DEBUG - 09/27/2005 by 09/27/2005
- More details on default failed_login_attempts - 09/29/2005 by 09/29/2005
- more failed_login_attempts! - 09/30/2005 by 09/30/2005
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