CVE-2016-3479 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-3479?

CVE-2016-3479 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Database, published on 21 Jul 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Portable Clusterware component in Oracle Database Server 11.2.0.4 and 12.1.0.2 allows remote attackers to affect availability via unknown vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-3479?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Database.

How do I fix CVE-2016-3479?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-3479 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-2016-3479 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3479 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2016-3609 Other in n/a Critical 9.0
• CVE-2016-3454 Other in n/a Critical 9.0
• CVE-2022-21510 Privilege escalation in Database - Enterprise Edition High 8.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-9m38-2292-v3f7.