Paul Wright

Hi Oracle Security Folks, The July Oracle Security Alert is out. My part is smaller than last quarter as just an In-Depth Credit, but Mr David Litchfield makes a triumphal return with some excellent new research. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html There is a CVSS 9 and a remote unauthenticated issue in this patch so worth installing this one. [...]

Hi Oracle Security Folks, Thanks to Oracle for fixing a batch of research I sent over in August 2013 regarding ADVISOR, DIRECTORIES, GAOP(GRANT ANY OBJECT PRIVILEGE) and also a critical privilege escalation which gains 8.5 in the CPU which I am not going to publish here as I want to give folks time to patch. [...]

Hello Oracle Security Readers, If we combine the following factors together then we can identify an escalation route from Index on SYSTEM to SYSDBA which does not require SELECT privileges on the indexed table: 1. SYSTEM passes it’s DBA role through it’s procedures. 2. Oracle indexes allow execution from read via functions i.e. INDEX can [...]