ASI Oracle Security Alert: Oracle Home Environment Variable Buffer Overflow

["Aaron C. Newman" <aaron () newman-family com>]

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Oracle Home Environment Variable Buffer Overflow

For additional details, the official advisories from Oracle
Corporation can be downloaded from:
http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/dbsmp_alert.pdf

Summary:
By setting a long ORACLE_HOME value (more than 750 bytes), an
attacker can manipulate the dbsnmp executable to run tasks for them.
Because the dbsnmp process runs setuid, this allows an attacker to
elevate his or her privilege to the level of the oracle operating
system account.

Fix:
Remove the setuid bit from the file (chmod -s dbsnmp) or apply the
available patch which can be downloaded from
http://metalink.oracle.com.

Background:
This vulnerability is based on the Oracle Enterprise Manager
Intelligent Agent. This issue exists because the executable file for
this process, dbsnmp, runs with the setuid bit enabled. That means
this problems ONLY EXIST ON UNIX (OR LINUX) VERSIONS OF ORACLE. If
you are not using the Intelligent Agent, you should remove the setuid
bit from this process. You can also avoid this issue by restricting
access to the Oracle operating system files. Only database
administrators should have access to these files.

The Oracle Intelligent Agent performs the following functions:
- -Provides local services or calling operating system dependent
services to interact locally with the managed targets.
- -Checks for events, and queuing the resulting event reports for
Oracle Enterprise Manager.
- -Runs Oracle Enterprise Manager jobs, collecting their results and
output, and/or queuing the results as required.
- -Cancels jobs or events as directed by the Console or other
applications.
- -Handles requests to send SNMP traps for events if SNMP is supported
on the Intelligent Agent's platform.


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