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CERT-In Vulnerability Note CIVN-2003-0005
Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite

Original Issue Date:July 26, 2003

Severity Rating: HIGH

Systems Affected

. Oracle E-Business Suite 11i, All Releases
. Oracle Applications, All Releases

Overview

A malformed request to FNDWRR CGI program causes FNDWRR executable to crash.

Description

FNDWRR is a program used to view reports and logs in a web browser. FNDWRR is implemented as a CGI program. There exists a buffer overflow in this CGI program which allows the attacker to gain unauthorized access to Oracle E-Business Suite by gaining control over the process and executing the arbitrary code on the server.

Any user who has HTTP access and specialized knowledge can exploit this vulnerability over the internet to gain unauthorized access to Oracle E-Business Suite, this can be done by sending a malformed request to FNDWRR CGI causing FNDWRR executable to crash.



Impact

This vulnerability may grant an attacker unauthorized access to Oracle E-Business Suite to execute some arbitrary code on the server.



Solution

Oracle has fixed the buffer overflow in the FNDWRR executable and related libraries. The patches number # 2919943 for this vulnerability available at http://metalink.oracle.com .

Appropriate testing and backups should be performed before applying any of these patches.

Vendor Information

Oracle
Oracle Security Alert 56 Dated: July 23, 2003
http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/alerts.htm

References

Oracle

http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/2003alert56.pdf

Integrigy
http://www.integrigy.com/alerts/FNDWRRBufferOverflow.htm

"Best Practices for Keeping Your E-Business Suite Secure" available at
http://metalink.oracle.com

Disclaimer

The information provided herein is on "as is" basis, without warranty of any kind.

Contact Information

Email: info@cert-in.org.in
Phone: +91-11-2436857

Postal address

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In)
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Government of India
Electronics Niketan
6, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road,
New Delhi - 110 003
India

 
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