CVE-2006-0272

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-01-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the XML Database component of Oracle Database server 9.2.0.7 and 10.1.0.4 has unspecified impact and attack vectors, as identified by Oracle Vuln# DB29. NOTE: based on mutual credits by the relevant sources, it is highly likely that this issue is a buffer overflow in the (a) DBMS_XMLSCHEMA and (b) DBMS_XMLSCHEMA_INT packages, as exploitable via long arguments to (1) XDB.DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.GENERATESCHEMA or (2) XDB.DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.GENERATESCHEMAS.

Affected products

Oracle10G: enterprise_10.1.0.4, personal_10.1.0.4, standard_10.1.0.4
Oracle9I: standard_9.2.0.7

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-01/0893.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/18493
http://secunia.com/advisories/18608
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015499
http://www.argeniss.com/research/ARGENISS-ADV-010601.txt
http://www.integrigy.com/info/IntegrigySecurityAnalysis-CPU0106.pdf
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/545804
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/891644
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2006-082403.html
http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_cpu_jan_2006.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16287
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-018A.html

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