Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker up to PCz 2.0.0 GUI null pointer dereference

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker up to PCz 2.0.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component GUI. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2014-9708. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker up to PCz 2.0.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component GUI. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Embedthis Appweb before 4.6.6 and 5.x before 5.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a Range header with an empty value, as demonstrated by "Range: x=,".

The weakness was published 07/19/2016 by Matthew Daley as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2016 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-9708 since 03/23/2015. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 96314 (Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Management Interface Remote DoS (PAN-SA-2016-0027)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Denial of Service and running in the context r.

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 (96314) and SecurityFocus (BID 73407†). Similar entries are available at VDB-74527, VDB-92714, VDB-89967 and VDB-89941. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Null pointer dereference
CWE: CWE-476 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 96314
Nessus Name: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Management Interface Remote DoS (PAN-SA-2016-0027)
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OpenVAS ID: 100711
OpenVAS Name: Embedthis Appweb Web Server Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Patch: github.com

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2016
Researcher: Matthew Daley
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2014-9708 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-9708
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-90005
SecurityFocus: 73407 - Appweb CVE-2014-9708 Null Pointer Deference Denial of Service Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1037007

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Entryinfo

Created: 07/20/2016 11:30
Updated: 09/08/2022 07:26
Changes: 07/20/2016 11:30 (47), 03/05/2019 09:02 (22), 09/08/2022 07:26 (3)
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