Oracle Database Remote Pre-authenticated TNS Poison Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 30 Apr 2012 12:18 Release Date: 30 Apr 2012 5898 Views

RISK: High Risk

TYPE: Servers - Database Servers

A vulnerability has been identified in Oracle Database, which can be exploited by malicious people with network access to the TNS Listener to inject commands and/or hijack connections from the client to the database server.

Note: Currently, there is no patch available for this vulnerability and proof of concept exploit code is publicly available

Impact

Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

Oracle Database version 8i to 11g R2

Solutions

NOTE: Currently, there is no patch available for this vulnerability.
Workaround
- Set the following parameter in the listener.ora configuration file
  dynamic_registration = off
- For Oracle RAC environments, edit the file protocol.ora or, for older versions, sqlnet.ora, at the server side and add the following directives:
  TCP.VALIDNODE_CHECKING = YES
  TCP.INVITED_NODE = (Comma,separated,list,of,ALL,valid,clients, ...)
- Enable and configure Oracle Advanced Security feature clients to use SSL/TLS. Thus, at both client and server side, the following parameters must be changed in protocol.ora or sqlnet.ora
  Client side: SQLNET.ENCRYPTION_CLIENT=REQUIRED
  Server side: SQLNET.ENCRYPTION_SERVER=REQUIRED

Vulnerability Identifier

No CVE information is available

Source

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