Re: *Huge* security hole in Oracle 8.0.5 with Intellegent agent

From: Jeff Long (longat_private)
Date: Mon May 03 1999 - 16:31:36 PDT

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    David Adrian wrote:
    >
    > John Ritchie wrote:
    >
    > > On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Anthony Clarke wrote:
    <snip>
    
    > > So if you've installed Oracle's Intelligent Agent or aren't sure if it's
    > > installed then check your oratclsh and fix that bit.  The only systems
    > > I've had experience on are 8.0.5 for Solaris and Linux but I'd check any
    > > 8.x release on any platform if it were mine.
    <snip>
    
    >     I patched my Linux version of oracle to 8.0.5.1.  When I checked for this
    > vulnerability, the suid bit was not set, and the ownership of oratclsh was
    > oracle.oracle.
    >     So it seems likely that upgrading to 8.0.5.1 will fix the problem.  On Linux,
    > this was necessary to fix many other nasty bugs anyway.
    
    Well, I patched to 8.0.5.1 on Digital Unix a while ago and discovered on
    Friday that oratclsh was still suid root so at least on my platform
    8.0.5.1 did not solve the problem.
    
    Jeff Long
    



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