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Sid
3-15149

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in database_10g.

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Impact:
Denial of Service.   

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Detailed Information:
Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Internet Directory component in Oracle Application Server 9.0.4.3, 10.1.2.3, and 10.1.4.2 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors.  NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the Oracle July 2008 CPU.  Oracle has not commented on reliable researcher claims that this issue is a denial of service (crash) via a malformed LDAP request that triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

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Affected Systems:
oracle database_10g 10.1.2.3
oracle database_10g 10.1.4.2

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:
Medium.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2008-2595:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2008-2595
  
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