Oracle Secure Backup observiced.exe Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
ZDI-10-002: January 12th, 2010CVE ID
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Vulnerability Details
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Oracle Secure Backup. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
The specific flaw exists in the Oracle Secure Backup Services daemon observiced.exe listening on TCP port 10000 by default. Due to the lack of bounds checking on the reverse lookup of connections to the port a stack-based buffer overflow can occur leading to a complete compromise of the affected system under the credentials of the SYSTEM account.
Vendor Response
Oracle has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:Disclosure Timeline
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2009-04-20 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2010-01-12 - Coordinated public release of advisory
Credit
This vulnerability was discovered by:-
Anonymous
