CVE-2001-0516 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2001-0516?

CVE-2001-0516 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Oracle9i, published on 27 Jul 2001. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Oracle listener between Oracle 9i and Oracle 8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed connection packet that contains an incorrect requester_version value that does not match an expected offset to the data.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2001-0516?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Oracle Oracle8i, Oracle Oracle9i.

How do I fix CVE-2001-0516?

No fix has been published for CVE-2001-0516 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2001-0516 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2001-0516 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Oracle9i

• CVE-2001-0499 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-0638 Memory corruption in n/a High 8.5
• CVE-2003-0634 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2002-0858 Hardcoded credentials in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2001-0126 Code injection in n/a High 7.5

All Oracle Oracle9i vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-wq4g-59xh-hgm3.