====================================================================== Secunia Research (now part of Flexera Software) 26/10/2015 Oracle Outside In Two Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities ====================================================================== Table of Contents Affected Software....................................................1 Severity.............................................................2 Description of Vulnerabilities.......................................3 Solution.............................................................4 Time Table...........................................................5 Credits..............................................................6 References...........................................................7 About Secunia........................................................8 Verification.........................................................9 ====================================================================== 1) Affected Software * Oracle Outside In versions 8.5.0, 8.5.1, and 8.5.2. ====================================================================== 2) Severity Rating: Moderately critical Impact: System Access Where: From remote ====================================================================== 3) Description of Vulnerabilities Secunia Research has discovered two vulnerabilities in Oracle Outside In Technology, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and compromise an application using the SDK. 1) An error in the vstga.dll when processing TGA files can be exploited to cause an out-of-bounds write memory access. 2) An error in the libxwd2.dll when processing XWD files can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow. Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code. ====================================================================== 4) Solution Apply update. Please see the Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory for October 2015 for details. ====================================================================== 5) Time Table 14/07/2015 - Vendor notified of vulnerabilities. 14/07/2015 - Vendor acknowledges report. 16/07/2015 - Vendor supplied bug ticket ID. 27/07/2015 - Vendor supplied information of fix in main codeline. 24/09/2015 - Replied to vendor and asked about CVE references. 25/09/2015 - Vendor replied that they check our request. 27/09/2015 - Vendor assigned two CVE references. 17/10/2015 - Vendor supplied 20/10/2015 as estimated fix date. 20/10/2015 - Release of vendor patch. 21/10/2015 - Public disclosure. 26/10/2015 - Publication of research advisory. ====================================================================== 6) Credits Discovered by Behzad Najjarpour Jabbari, Secunia Research (now part of Flexera Software). ====================================================================== 7) References The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned the CVE-2015-4877 and CVE-2015-4878 identifiers for the vulnerabilities. ====================================================================== 8) About Secunia (now part of Flexera Software) In September 2015, Secunia has been acquired by Flexera Software: https://secunia.com/blog/435/ 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/ ====================================================================== 9) Verification Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2015-04/ Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/ ======================================================================