Dear Bugtraq Reader
3 months ago (15-april-2005) I informed the Oracle Security Team
(secalert_us@oracle.com) that I will publish bug details if the bugs are not
fixed with the next critical patch update (CPU July 2005). I know that Oracle
products are complex and a good patch quality need some time. That's why I
offered Oracle additional time if 3 months are not sufficient for fixing the
bugs. Oracle never asked for more time.
Oracle's behaviour not fixing critical security bugs for a long time (over 650
days) is not acceptable for their customers. Oracle put their customers in
danger. At least one critical vulnerability can be abused from any attacker via
internet.
I decided to publish these vulnerabilities because it is possible to mitigate
the risk of these vulnerabilities by using the workarounds provided in the
advisories.
Kind Regards
Alexander Kornbrust
www.red-database-security.com
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Red-Database-Security GmbH - Oracle Security Advisory
Read parts of any file via desformat in Oracle Reports
Name Read parts of any file via desformat in Oracle Reports
Systems Affected All version of Oracle Reports
Severity Medium Risk
Category Information disclosure
Vendor URL http://www.oracle.com
Author Alexander Kornbrust (ak at red-database-security.com)
Date 19 July 2005 (V 1.00)
Advisory AKSEC2003-007
Inital bug report 692 days ago
Advisory-URL
http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_reports_read_any_file.html
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.
Testcase
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http://myserver:7778/reports/rwservlet?server=myserver+report=test.rdf+userid=sc
ott/tiger@iasdb+destype=file+MODE=CHARACTER+desformat=/etc/passwd
***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****
Workaround
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Available at
http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_reports_read_any_file.html
Affected systems
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All versions of Oracle Reports are affected.
Patch Information
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This bug is NOT FIXED with Critical Patch Update July 2005 (CPU July 2005).
It seems that Oracle is NOT INTERESTED to fix this issue and provide patches for
this issue. If you think you need a patch to protect your Oracle Application
Server you should contact Oracle.
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
19-jul-2005 Red-Database-Security published this advisory
© 2005 by Red-Database-Security GmbH - last update 19-july-2005
