CVE-2009-1979

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Network Authentication component in Oracle Database 10.1.0.5 and 10.2.0.4 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the October 2009 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from an independent researcher that this is related to improper validation of the AUTH_SESSKEY parameter length that leads to arbitrary code execution.

10.0

CVSS

Severity: Critical

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 78.89% Top 5%

Third-Party Advisory secunia.com Third-Party Advisory us-cert.gov

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
http://blogs.conus.info/node/28
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507598/100/0/threaded	mailing list
http://secunia.com/advisories/37027	third party advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023057	vdb entry
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-294A.html	third party advisory us government resource
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2009-096303.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36747	vdb entry
http://osvdb.org/59110	vdb entry

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2009-1979?: CVE-2009-1979 has been scored as a critical severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2009-1979?: To fix CVE-2009-1979, 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-2009-1979 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2009-1979 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~79% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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