CVE-2002-0857

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-09-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Format string vulnerabilities in Oracle Listener Control utility (lsnrctl) for Oracle 9.2 and 9.0, 8.1, and 7.3.4, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the Oracle DBA system by placing format strings into certain entries in the listener.ora configuration file.

Affected products

Oracle Database: 7.3.4, 9.0, 9.2
Oracle8I: 8.1

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102933735716634&w=2
http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/2002alert40rev1.pdf
http://securitytracker.com/id?1005037
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/301059
http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/ora-lsnrfmtstr.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5460
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102933735716634&w=2
http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/2002alert40rev1.pdf
http://securitytracker.com/id?1005037
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/301059
http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/ora-lsnrfmtstr.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5460

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