CVE-2001-0943

dbsnmp in Oracle 8.0.5 and 8.1.5, under certain conditions, trusts the PATH environment variable to find and execute the (1) chown or (2) chgrp commands, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the PATH to point to Trojan Horse programs.

• http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/dbsmp_alert.pdf
• http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2001/Dec/0001.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/201020Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3129Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/dbsmp_alert.pdf
• http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2001/Dec/0001.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/201020Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3129Patch, Vendor Advisory

Published

Aug 31, 2001

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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