Oracle Billing/Revenue Management 7.5/12.0 Perl memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Oracle Billing and Revenue Management 7.5/12.0. Affected is an unknown function of the component Perl. Executing a manipulation can lead to memory corruption. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-18311. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Oracle Billing and Revenue Management 7.5/12.0 (Billing Software) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block of the component Perl. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.x before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.

The bug was discovered 11/29/2018. The weakness was shared 07/16/2019 as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - Juli 2019 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at oracle.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2018-18311 since 10/14/2018. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 8 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 121371 (CentOS 7 : perl (CESA-2019:0109)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 371712 (Apple macOS Mojave 10.14.4, Security Update 2019-002 High Sierra, Security Update 2019-002 Sierra Not Installed (APPLE-SA-2019-3-25-2)).

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 (121371) and SecurityFocus (BID 106145†). The entries VDB-127381, VDB-127383, VDB-127384 and VDB-132369 are related to this item. 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: 121371
Nessus Name: CentOS 7 : perl (CESA-2019:0109)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Patch: github.com

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10/14/2018 🔍
11/29/2018 +46 days 🔍
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01/25/2019 +49 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - Juli 2019
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2018-18311 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-18311
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-137884

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SecurityFocus: 106145 - Perl Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1042181

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Entryinfo

Created: 07/17/2019 10:46
Updated: 06/10/2024 11:12
Changes: 07/17/2019 10:46 (73), 07/05/2020 09:33 (16), 10/26/2023 15:40 (5), 06/10/2024 11:12 (16)
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