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CVE-2001-0516

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-07-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Oracle listener between Oracle 9i and Oracle 8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed connection packet that contains an incorrect requester_version value that does not match an expected offset to the data.

Affected products

• Oracle8I: all versions
• Oracle9I: all versions

References

• http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/net8_dos_alert.pdf
• http://xforce.iss.net/alerts/advise82.php
• http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/net8_dos_alert.pdf
• http://xforce.iss.net/alerts/advise82.php

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