National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2003-0222
Orirignal release date: 2003-05-12
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    Stack-based buffer overflow in Oracle Net Services for Oracle Database Server 9i release 2 and earlier allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a "CREATE DATABASE LINK" query containing a connect string with a long USING parameter.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 7 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: input bound="1"
    Impact Type: sec_prot other="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Oracle8i (Oracle)
    Oracle9i Release 2 (Oracle)
    Oracle7 (Oracle)
    Oracle8 (Oracle)
    Oracle9i (Oracle)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-0222