Oracle Communications 12.x Policy Management memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Oracle Communications 12.x. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Policy Management. The manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2016-2176. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Oracle Communications 12.x (Cloud Software). Affected is an unknown part of the component Policy Management. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. 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, and availability.

The bug was discovered 05/03/2016. The weakness was disclosed 07/18/2018 by Guido Vranken as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2018 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at oracle.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2016-2176 since 01/29/2016. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit 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 92323 (AIX OpenSSL Advisory : openssl_advisory20.asc), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family AIX Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 124883 (Oracle Solaris 10 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Third Party Bulletin - April 2016)).

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 (92323) and SecurityFocus (BID 89746†). The entries VDB-76874, VDB-81143, VDB-82305 and VDB-83259 are pretty similar. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 92323
Nessus Name: AIX OpenSSL Advisory : openssl_advisory20.asc
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OpenVAS ID: 801105
OpenVAS Name: Apple Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities December-2016
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Patch: 2919516136a4227d9e6d8f2fe66ef976aaf8c561

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05/03/2016 +95 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2018
Researcher: Guido Vranken
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-2176 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2016-2176
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-121572

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SecurityFocus: 89746 - OpenSSL CVE-2016-2176 Information Disclosure Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1035721

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Entryinfo

Created: 07/18/2018 10:06
Updated: 04/09/2023 16:22
Changes: 07/18/2018 10:06 (86), 03/05/2020 21:18 (6), 04/09/2023 16:22 (7)
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Cache ID: 216:69F:103

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