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CVE-2008-5444
published 2009-01-14

CVE-2008-5444: Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Secure Backup component in Oracle Secure Backup 10.2.0.2 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity…

PriorityP268critical10CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCCICAC
EXPLOIT
EPSS
60.62%
99.1th percentile
Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Secure Backup component in Oracle Secure Backup 10.2.0.2 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5448 and CVE-2008-5449.

Affected

1 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
oraclesecure_backup——

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

port10000↗
other0x608f5a28↗
other0x901↗
filenameoracore10.dll↗
bytes↗
\x81\xc4\x54\xf2\xff\xff
  • →Detect exploitation attempts by monitoring for oversized NDMP_CONNECT_CLIENT_AUTH packets (username field ~3789+ bytes) sent to TCP port 10000 targeting Oracle Secure Backup. ↗
  • →Alert on NDMP message type 0x901 (NDMP_CONNECT_CLIENT_AUTH) on TCP/10000 with abnormally large username length fields (N-packed value exceeding normal bounds). ↗
  • →Look for the stack-adjustment prepend encoder byte sequence \x81\xc4\x54\xf2\xff\xff in the payload body of NDMP traffic on port 10000 as a shellcode indicator. ↗
  • →Monitor for return-address value 0x608f5a28 (oracore10.dll) appearing in network traffic to TCP/10000, indicating exploitation targeting Windows 2003 SP0 / XP SP3. ↗
  • ·The Metasploit module only targets Oracle Secure Backup 10.1.0.3 on Windows 2003 SP0 and Windows XP SP3; the ROP/return address (0x608f5a28 in oracore10.dll) is version-specific and will not work against other builds. ↗
  • ·The payload space is limited to 1024 bytes and null bytes (\x00) are bad characters; detections relying on raw shellcode patterns must account for encoding. ↗
  • ·The exploit uses a StackAdjustment of -3500 bytes via the prepend encoder, meaning the actual shellcode execution context is significantly offset from the overflow point. ↗
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