CVE-2009-1979
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the Network Authentication component in Oracle Database 10.1.0.5 and 10.2.0.4 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the October 2009 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from an independent researcher that this is related to improper validation of the AUTH_SESSKEY parameter length that leads to arbitrary code execution.
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Key data
EPSS
- Score
- 0.76361 (76.4% probability)
- Percentile
- 99.5%
- Scores of
- Nov 10, 2026
- Model
- v2026.06.15
References
- blogs.conus.info/node/28
- 20091030 CVE-2009-1979 (Oracle RDBMS) (securityfocus.com)mailing-list
- 37027 (secunia.com)third-party-advisory
- 1023057 (securitytracker.com)vdb-entry
- TA09-294A (us-cert.gov)third-party-advisory
- oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2009-096303.ht…
- 36747 (securityfocus.com)vdb-entry
- 59110 (osvdb.org)vdb-entry
Timeline
- ID reserved
- Record published
- Record last updated
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