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Oracle Application Server contains several vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Note VU#435974

Original Release Date: 2004-09-01 | Last Revised: 2004-09-01

Overview

Several vulnerabilities exist in the Portal and iSQL*Plus components of the Oracle Application Server. According the the Oracle Security Alert, exploitation of these vulnerabilities would require the attacker to have network access, but not a valid user account on the vulnerable system.

Description

Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4) versions 9.0.4.0 and 9.0.4.1, Oracle9i Application Server Release 2 versions 9.0.2.3 and 9.0.3.1 and Oracle9i Application Server Release 1 version 1.0.2.2 contain multiple vulnerabilities in the in the Portal and iSQL*Plus components. In order to exploit these vulnerabilities an attacker would need to have network access to the vulnerable systems.

Impact

The complete impact of this vulnerabilities is not clear. Oracle has rated this issue as High. For more information about Oracle's severity ratings please see:

http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/oracle_severity_ratings.pdf

Solution

Apply the appropriate patch or upgrade as specified in the Oracle Security Alert #68 (pdf).


For sites that use Oracle's Collaboration Suite or E-Business Suite 11i, please see Oracle Security Alert #68 (pdf) for remediation instructions.

Vendor Information

435974
 

Oracle Corporation Affected

Updated:  September 01, 2004

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

Please see Oracle Security Alert #68 (pdf).

If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us email.


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References

Acknowledgements

These vulnerabilities were discovered by several parties and reported in an Oracle Security Alert.

This document was written by Jason A Rafail.

Other Information

CVE IDs: None
Severity Metric: 27.42
Date Public: 2004-08-31
Date First Published: 2004-09-01
Date Last Updated: 2004-09-01 18:34 UTC
Document Revision: 9

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