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Title: Oracle Database Default Library Directory Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Severity: HIGH

Description:

Oracle database implementations are reportedly prone to a default library directory privilege escalation vulnerability. This issue arises due to a default configuration error.

The problem presents itself as various libraries required by certain setuid root binaries, namely 'dbsnmp' and 'nmo', are by default located in directories that are writable by the Oracle software owner.

The user 'iasr2' is the default owner of the directory containing required libraries, '/export/home/iasr2/ora9ias_mid/lib/', and libraries contained within it. This would allow a malicious Oracle software owner (users who have access to the 'iasr2' account) to replace a required library with malicious code designed to carry out some attacker-specified action as the superuser; facilitating attacker privilege escalation.

It should be noted that this vulnerability only affects Oracle on UNIX/Linux platforms.

Affected Products:

  • Oracle Oracle8i Enterprise Edition 8.0.5.0.0
  • Oracle Oracle8i Enterprise Edition 8.0.6.0.0
  • Oracle Oracle8i Enterprise Edition 8.0.6.0.1
  • Oracle Oracle8i Enterprise Edition 8.1.5.0.0
  • Oracle Oracle8i Enterprise Edition 8.1.5.0.2
  • Oracle Oracle8i Enterprise Edition 8.1.5.1.0
  • Oracle Oracle8i Enterprise Edition 8.1.6.0.0
  • Oracle Oracle8i Enterprise Edition 8.1.6.1.0
  • Oracle Oracle8i Enterprise Edition 8.1.7 .0.0
  • Oracle Oracle8i Enterprise Edition 8.1.7.1.0
  • Oracle Oracle8i Standard Edition 8.0.6
  • Oracle Oracle8i Standard Edition 8.0.6.3
  • Oracle Oracle8i Standard Edition 8.1.5
  • Oracle Oracle8i Standard Edition 8.1.6
  • Oracle Oracle8i Standard Edition 8.1.7
  • Oracle Oracle8i Standard Edition 8.1.7.0.0
  • Oracle Oracle8i Standard Edition 8.1.7.1
  • Oracle Oracle8i Standard Edition 8.1.7.4
  • Oracle Oracle9i Application Server 0.0.0
  • Oracle Oracle9i Application Server 1.0.2
  • Oracle Oracle9i Application Server 1.0.2 .1s
  • Oracle Oracle9i Application Server 1.0.2 .2
  • Oracle Oracle9i Application Server 1.0.2.2.2
  • Oracle Oracle9i Application Server 9.0.2
  • Oracle Oracle9i Application Server 9.0.2 .3
  • Oracle Oracle9i Application Server 9.0.2.0.0
  • Oracle Oracle9i Application Server 9.0.2.0.1
  • Oracle Oracle9i Application Server 9.0.2.1
  • Oracle Oracle9i Application Server 9.0.2.2
  • Oracle Oracle9i Application Server 9.0.3
  • Oracle Oracle9i Application Server 9.0.3 .1
  • Oracle Oracle9i Application Server Portal 3.0.9.8.5
  • Oracle Oracle9i Application Server Portal 9.0.2.3
  • Oracle Oracle9i Application Server Portal 9.0.2.3A
  • Oracle Oracle9i Application Server Portal 9.0.2.3B
  • Oracle Oracle9i Client Edition 9.2.0 .0.1
  • Oracle Oracle9i Client Edition 9.2.0 .0.2
  • Oracle Oracle9i Enterprise Edition 9.0.1
  • Oracle Oracle9i Enterprise Edition 9.0.1.4
  • Oracle Oracle9i Enterprise Edition 9.0.1.5
  • Oracle Oracle9i Enterprise Edition 9.2.0 .0.3
  • Oracle Oracle9i Enterprise Edition 9.2.0.0
  • Oracle Oracle9i Enterprise Edition 9.2.0.0.1
  • Oracle Oracle9i Enterprise Edition 9.2.0.0.2
  • Oracle Oracle9i Enterprise Edition 9.2.0.0.4
  • Oracle Oracle9i Lite 5.0.0.0.0.0
  • Oracle Oracle9i Lite 5.0.0.1.0.0
  • Oracle Oracle9i Lite 5.0.0.2.0.0
  • Oracle Oracle9i Lite 5.0.0.2.9.0
  • Oracle Oracle9i Personal Edition 8.1.7
  • Oracle Oracle9i Personal Edition 9.0.1
  • Oracle Oracle9i Personal Edition 9.0.1.4
  • Oracle Oracle9i Personal Edition 9.0.1.5
  • Oracle Oracle9i Personal Edition 9.2.0
  • Oracle Oracle9i Personal Edition 9.2.0 .0.3
  • Oracle Oracle9i Personal Edition 9.2.0.0.1
  • Oracle Oracle9i Personal Edition 9.2.0.0.2
  • Oracle Oracle9i Personal Edition 9.2.0.0.4
  • Oracle Oracle9i Standard Edition 9.0.0
  • Oracle Oracle9i Standard Edition 9.0.1
  • Oracle Oracle9i Standard Edition 9.0.1.2
  • Oracle Oracle9i Standard Edition 9.0.1.3
  • Oracle Oracle9i Standard Edition 9.0.1.4
  • Oracle Oracle9i Standard Edition 9.0.1.5
  • Oracle Oracle9i Standard Edition 9.0.2
  • Oracle Oracle9i Standard Edition 9.2.0
  • Oracle Oracle9i Standard Edition 9.2.0 .0.3
  • Oracle Oracle9i Standard Edition 9.2.0 .3
  • Oracle Oracle9i Standard Edition 9.2.0.0.1
  • Oracle Oracle9i Standard Edition 9.2.0.0.2
  • Oracle Oracle9i Standard Edition 9.2.0.0.4

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