CVE-2002-0965

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 69.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2002-10-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in TNS Listener for Oracle 9i Database Server on Windows systems, and Oracle 8 on VM, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long SERVICE_NAME parameter, which is not properly handled when writing an error message to a log file.

Affected products

Oracle9I: 9.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0096.html
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276526
http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/net9_dos_alert.pdf
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9288.php
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/630091
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4845
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0096.html
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276526
http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/net9_dos_alert.pdf
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9288.php
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/630091
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4845

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