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Oracle "PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA24475  
Release Date: 2007-03-12
Last Update: 2007-04-19

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Oracle Database 10.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-1442 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Cesar Cerrudo has reported a vulnerability in Oracle Database 10, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the incorrect use of the "SetSecurityDescriptorDacl()" function when performing various tasks such as setting the security attributes of the process, creating events, mutexes, and named pipes. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is reported in version 10g. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Apply patches (see the vendor's advisory).

Provided and/or discovered by:
Cesar Cerrudo, Argeniss

Changelog:
2007-03-21: Added CVE reference.
2007-04-19: Updated "Solution" and "Solution Status" sections to reflect fix information.

Original Advisory:
Oracle:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/depl...ritical-patch-updates/cpuapr2007.html

http://argeniss.com/research/10MinSecAudit.zip
https://www.blackhat.com/presentation...Presentation/bh-dc-07-Cerrudo-ppt.pdf



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