====================================================================== Secunia Research 16/01/2013 - Oracle Outside In Technology Stream Filters - - Paradox Database Handling Buffer Overflow - ====================================================================== Table of Contents Affected Software....................................................1 Severity.............................................................2 Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3 Description of Vulnerability.........................................4 Solution.............................................................5 Time Table...........................................................6 Credits..............................................................7 References...........................................................8 About Secunia........................................................9 Verification........................................................10 ====================================================================== 1) Affected Software * Oracle Outside In SDK version 8.3.7 (w/ patch 14153713). NOTE: Other versions may also be affected. ====================================================================== 2) Severity Rating: Highly critical Impact: System access Where: From remote ====================================================================== 3) Vendor's Description of Software "Outside In Technology is a suite of software development kits (SDKs) that provides developers with a comprehensive solution to extract, normalize, scrub, convert and view the contents of 600 unstructured file formats." Product Link: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/webcenter/content /oit-all-085236.html ====================================================================== 4) Description of Vulnerability Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Oracle Outside In Technology, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the Paradox database stream filter (vspdx.dll) when processing the field names and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted "number of fields" value in the table header. ====================================================================== 5) Solution Apply patch. ====================================================================== 6) Time Table 11/10/2012 - Vendor notified. 15/10/2012 - Vendor response. 17/12/2012 - Vendor response, fix scheduled for next CPU. 16/01/2013 - Public disclosure. ====================================================================== 7) Credits Discovered by Dmitriy Pletnev, Secunia Research. ====================================================================== 8) References The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the CVE-2013-0418 identifier for the vulnerability. ====================================================================== 9) About Secunia Secunia offers vulnerability management solutions to corporate customers with verified and reliable vulnerability intelligence relevant to their specific system configuration: http://secunia.com/advisories/business_solutions/ Secunia also provides a publicly accessible and comprehensive advisory database as a service to the security community and private individuals, who are interested in or concerned about IT-security. http://secunia.com/advisories/ Secunia believes that it is important to support the community and to do active vulnerability research in order to aid improving the security and reliability of software in general: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/ Secunia regularly hires new skilled team members. Check the URL below to see currently vacant positions: http://secunia.com/corporate/jobs/ Secunia offers a FREE mailing list called Secunia Security Advisories: http://secunia.com/advisories/mailing_lists/ ====================================================================== 10) Verification Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2013-02/ Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/ ======================================================================