[Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-013] Oracle JD Edwards JDENET USRBROADCAST Denial of Service

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Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-013: Oracle JD Edwards JDENET USRBROADCAST 
Denial of Service

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?1. Impact on Business
=====================?

By exploiting this vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker would be able to 
remotely disrupt the JD Edwards server.
This would result in the total unavailability of the ERP functionality, 
preventing company users from performing the required business processes.

- -- Risk Level: High


2. Advisory Information
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- -- Release Date: 2011-04-27

- -- Last Revised: 2011-04-27

- -- Security Advisory ID: ONAPSIS-2011-13

- -- Onapsis SVS ID: ONAPSIS-00022

- -- Researcher: Juan Pablo Perez Etchegoyen


3. Vulnerability Information
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- -- Vendor: ORACLE

- -- Affected Components:

* JD Edwards 9.0 EnterpriseOne Server + EnterpriseOne  Tools 8.98
( older versions might be also affected)

- -- Vulnerability Class: Memory corruption

- -- Remotely Exploitable: Yes

- -- Locally Exploitable: No

- -- Authentication Required: No

- -- Original Advisory: 
http://www.onapsis.com/resources/get.php?resid=adv_onapsis-2011-13


4. Affected Components Description
==================================

JDENet is a network communication middleware that performs network 
communications workstation-to-server and server-to-server. It is used to call
remote functions, to authenticate users and transmit information between hosts 
in a JD Edwards environment.


5. Vulnerability Details
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If a specially crafted packet is sent to the JDENet service, and access 
violation is raised. As the process fails to process this exception, this
results in a crash that would render the system unavailable.
Further technical details about this issue are not disclosed at this moment 
with the purpose of providing enough time to affected customers to patch
their systems and protect against the exploitation of the
described vulnerability.


6. Solution
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Apply Oracle Critical Patch update April ? 2010. More information available on 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2011-301950.html
Onapsis strongly recommends Oracle customers to download the related security 
fixes and apply them to the affected components in order to reduce
business risks.


7. Report Timeline
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* 2010-09-20: Onapsis provides vulnerability information to Oracle.
* 2010-09-21: Oracle confirms reception of vulnerability submission.
* 2010-09-24: Oracle states vulnerability is under investigation.
* 2010-10-07: Oracle confirms vulnerability.
* 2011-04-19: Oracle releases fixes in CPU.
* 2011-04-27: Onapsis releases security advisory.


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