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CVE-2009-1979 is an unspecified vulnerability in the Network Authentication component of Oracle Database versions 10.1.0.5 and 10.2.0.4. While Oracle has not provided technical details, independent researchers have suggested that the vulnerability is due to improper validation of the AUTH_SESSKEY parameter length, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending specially crafted authentication requests.
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This repository contains a single Metasploit module (modules/exploits/windows/oracle/tns_auth_sesskey.rb) that exploits a stack buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2009-1979) in the Oracle 10gR2 TNS Listener service on Windows. The exploit works by sending a specially crafted TNS packet with an overly long AUTH_SESSKEY value to the service, resulting in arbitrary code execution. The module supports automatic detection of the Oracle version and targets two specific versions (10.2.0.1.0 and 10.2.0.4.0). The exploit is operational and allows the attacker to run custom payloads (such as reverse shells) with the privileges of the TNS Listener process. The main network endpoint is TCP port 1521, which is the default for Oracle TNS. The code is written in Ruby and is designed to be used within the Metasploit framework.
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