CVE-2008-5445

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Secure Backup component in Oracle Secure Backup 10.2.0.2 allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the January 2009 CPU. Oracle has not commented on reliable researcher claims that this issue is a denial of service in observiced.exe via malformed private Protocol data that triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

5.0

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 1.66% Top 20%

Vendor Advisory secunia.com Vendor Advisory vupen.com

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
http://www.fortiguardcenter.com/advisory/FGA-2009-02.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33525	third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0115	vdb entry vendor advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2009-097901.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33177	vdb entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500113/100/0/threaded	mailing list

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2008-5445?: CVE-2008-5445 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2008-5445?: To fix CVE-2008-5445, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2008-5445 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2008-5445 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~2% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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