Oracle Communications Policy Management 11.5 GlibC Ghost memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as very critical has been reported in Oracle Communications Policy Management 11.5. Affected is an unknown function of the component GlibC. Performing a manipulation results in memory corruption (Ghost). This vulnerability is known as CVE-2015-0235. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. Furthermore, an exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as very critical has been found in Oracle Communications Policy Management 11.5 (Cloud Software). This affects an unknown code of the component GlibC. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability (Ghost). CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The bug was discovered 01/27/2015. The weakness was published 07/19/2017 with Qualys as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2017 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at oracle.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2015-0235 since 11/18/2014. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/30/2024).

A public exploit has been developed in Ruby. The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $100k and more. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 82043 (Amazon Linux AMI : php55 (ALAS-2015-494) (GHOST)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Amazon Linux Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 124172 (Apple Mac OS X v10.11.1 Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2015-10-21-4)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (35951), Tenable (82043), SecurityFocus (BID 72325†) and Secunia (SA62758†). Similar entries are available at VDB-68857, VDB-74877, VDB-74936 and VDB-78625. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Name: Ghost
Class: Memory corruption / Ghost
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
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Nessus ID: 82043
Nessus Name: Amazon Linux AMI : php55 (ALAS-2015-494) (GHOST)
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OpenVAS ID: 14611
OpenVAS Name: Amazon Linux Local Check: alas-2015-494
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MetaSploit ID: wordpress_ghost_scanner.rb
MetaSploit Name: Joomla Page Scanner
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Suricata ID: 2020325
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11/18/2014 🔍
01/27/2015 +70 days 🔍
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01/28/2015 +1 days 🔍
03/25/2015 +56 days 🔍
07/19/2017 +847 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2017
Researcher: Qualys
Organization: Qualys
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2015-0235 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-0235
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-103905

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SecurityFocus: 72325 - GNU glibc CVE-2015-0235 Remote Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 62758
SecurityTracker: 1032909

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 07/20/2017 00:10
Updated: 10/30/2024 06:15
Changes: 07/20/2017 00:10 (70), 10/31/2019 09:04 (26), 01/02/2021 22:09 (3), 01/02/2021 22:15 (1), 10/30/2024 06:15 (15)
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