Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Secure Backup

Published: 2022-01-23

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2021-3712 CVE-2021-26691
CWE-ID	CWE-125 CWE-476
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software Subscribe	Oracle Secure Backup Other software / Other software solutions
Vendor	Oracle

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Out-of-bounds read

EUVDB-ID: #VU56064

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 5.7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3712

CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when processing ASN.1 strings related to a confusion with NULL termination of strings in array. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application to trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system or perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Oracle Secure Backup: 18.1.0.0

External links

http://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html?1405

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.

2) NULL pointer dereference

EUVDB-ID: #VU53776

Risk: Low

CVSSv3.1: 5.2 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-26691

CWE-ID: CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference