Breaking Down The Oracle 0-Day TNS Listener Poison Attack
A lot has been written in the last week about the Oracle TNS Listener Poison Attack (CVE-2012-1675). Not everything that has been published is correct. I have spent a great deal of time investigating the topic and I want to share my views on the issue. On April 18th, the security researcher Joxean Koret published the following advisory on the full disclosure mailing list. http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Apr/204 . Assuming it was fixed in the April 2012 CPU, he discusses a vulnerability that…
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