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CVE-2001-0833

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: yes
• Published: 2001-12-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in otrcrep in Oracle 8.0.x through 9.0.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long ORACLE_HOME environment variable, aka the "Oracle Trace Collection Security Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Oracle Database: through 9.0.1; 8.0, 8.1

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100386756715645&w=2
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/201295
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/222612
• http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/otrcrep.pdf
• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-011.shtml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3139
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6940
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100386756715645&w=2
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/201295
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/222612
• http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/otrcrep.pdf
• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-011.shtml

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