Oracle Communications Billing/Revenue Management 7.5 Perl input validation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management 7.5. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Perl. This manipulation causes input validation. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2016-2381. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management 7.5 (Cloud Software). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Perl. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.

The bug was discovered 03/01/2016. The weakness was published 10/19/2017 as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - October 2017 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at oracle.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2016-2381 since 02/13/2016. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

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 $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 89062 (Debian DSA-3501-1 : perl - security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Debian Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 169150 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for perl (SUSE-SU-2016:2246-1)).

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 Tenable (89062) and SecurityFocus (BID 83802†). Similar entries are available at VDB-81872, VDB-103835, VDB-108081 and VDB-108096. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Class: Input validation
CWE: CWE-20
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Nessus ID: 89062
Nessus Name: Debian DSA-3501-1 : perl - security update
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OpenVAS ID: 703501
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 3501-1 (perl - security update)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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04/08/2016 +37 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - October 2017
Researcher: Perl
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-2381 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-2381
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-108025

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SecurityFocus: 83802 - Perl 'perl.c' CVE-2016-2381 Security Bypass Vulnerability

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Entryinfo

Created: 10/20/2017 00:02
Updated: 01/17/2021 13:32
Changes: 10/20/2017 00:02 (91), 11/26/2019 17:07 (1), 01/17/2021 13:32 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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