A vulnerability has been identified in Oracle Database, which could be exploited by malicious users to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error when processing malformed arguments passed to the "XDB_PITRIG_PKG.PITRIG_DROPMETADATA" procedure, which could be exploited by authenticated attackers to crash an affected server or execute arbitrary code on the underlying system in the context of the database account.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by VeriSign iDefense Labs.
ChangeLog
2007-11-08 : Initial release
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