Trustwave SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2016-005:
Vulnerabilities in DevArt dotConnect for Oracle

Published: 03/09/2016 
Version: 1.0

Vendor: DevArt (www.devart.com)
Product: dotConnect for Oracle
Version affected: 8.4

Product description:
dotConnect for Oracle is a library for communication with Oracle Database.

Finding 1: Memory corruption when long username/password is used
Credit: Martin Rakhmanov and Ernesto Cullen of Trustwave

dotConnect for Oracle is a .NET library used to work with Oracle Databases.
One of the modes of operation is based on OCI which are native libraries from
Oracle. In this mode dotConnect makes native library calls and works with 
unmanaged memory. There is a flaw which allows to corrupt unmanaged memory via 
passing an overly long username or password for Oracle database connection. 
This issue potentially can lead to code execution or denial of service.

Remediation Steps:
Apply the dotConnect for Oracle 8.5.602 update or the latest stable version.

Revision History:
02/09/2016 - Vulnerability disclosed to vendor
02/26/2016 - Patch released by vendor
03/09/2016 - Advisory published

References
1. https://www.devart.com/dotconnect/oracle/

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