[Full-disclosure] [Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-006] Oracle JD Edwards JDENET Kernel Denial of Service

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Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-006: Oracle JD Edwards JDENET Kernel Denial of 
Service

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

By exploiting this vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker would be able to 
remotely block certain functions of the JD Edwards server.
This would result in the unavailability of certain services running in the JD 
Edwards server. These services are not critical for the common operation of the 
system.

- Risk Level: Low


2. Advisory Information
=======================

- Release Date: 2011-04-27

- Last Revised: 2011-04-27

- Security Advisory ID: ONAPSIS-2011-06

- Onapsis SVS ID: ONAPSIS-00019

- Researcher: Juan Pablo Perez Etchegoyen


3. Vulnerability Information
============================

- Vendor: ORACLE

- Affected Components:

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

- Vulnerability Class: Denial of service

- Remotely Exploitable: Yes

- Locally Exploitable: No

- Authentication Required: No

- Original Advisory: 
http://www.onapsis.com/resources/get.php?resid=adv_onapsis-2011-06


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
========================

If a certain type of message, containing a specially-crafted Unicode data 
packet, is sent to the JDENET Service, the JDENET Kernel executes a system 
call, using a user-provided value as the time parameter. This causes the 
service to stop responding for a period of time.

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
===========

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
==================

        * 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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