Vulnerability Note VU#150332

Oracle Text SQL injection vulnerability

Oracle Text uses standard SQL to index, search, and analyze text and documents stored in the Oracle database, in files, and on the web. Oracle Text can perform linguistic analysis on documents, as well as search text using a variety of strategies including keyword searching, context queries, Boolean operations, pattern matching, mixed thematic queries, HTML/XML section searching, and so on.

Based on research into public information, we believe that this issue is Oracle vuln# DB15 in the Oracle CPU for January 2006. However, there is not sufficient information to authoritatively relate Oracle vulnerability information to information provided by other parties.

II. Impact

This issue is corrected in the Oracle Critical Patch Update for January 2006.

Systems Affected

http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/pdf/cpujan2006.html
http://www.integrigy.com/info/IntegrigySecurityAnalysis-CPU0106.pdf
http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_cpu_jan_2006.html
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/text/index.html

Credit

This vulnerability was reported in the Oracle Critical Patch Update for January 2006. Information in this document came from Oracle, Alexander Kornbrust of Red-database Security, and Integrigy.

This document was written by Jeff Gennari.

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