Did you know that approximately 70% of Oracle customers are also using MySQL?  The use cases for each database are often different – and sometime overlap.  But the needs of a database are the same – among them are security, integration with other products, and strong monitoring.  One of the advantages of the MySQL / Oracle relationship is that Oracle is integrating MySQL with many of its other software products such as:

• Goldengate, for real time heterogeneous replication from/to MySQL and other databases.  Goldengate real life use cases include real time replication of selected MySQL data collected online to a data warehouse in Oracle, Teradata, Neteeza, etc; query offloading from a transactional system built on Oracle, DB2 Z series, SQL Server, etc to a MySQL query instance; and real time reporting by real time replication of a subset of data from corporate …

Summary

As part of GreenSQL’s Database security research,  we’ve been validating and extending coverage of known and unknown vulnerabilities in order to increase GreenSQL product security, at this post we will reveal a full working Prove of Concept for the CVE-2007-4517 vulnerability which executes arbitrary code.

The Exploit: PL/SQL/2007-4517 exploit is a PL/SQL procedure that exploits the CVE-2007-4517 vulnerability, also known as Oracle Database XDB.XDB_PITRIG_PKG.PITRIG_DROPMETADATA Procedure Multiple Argument Remote Overflow.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the XDB.XDB_PITRIG_PKG.PITRIG_DROPMETADATA procedure when processing the OWNER and NAME arguments to create an SQL query.

This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by passing overly long OWNER and NAME arguments to the affected procedure.

Symptoms

System Changes: …

Lateral SQL Injection in Oracle Database

Overview
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In order to get the system date in Oracle, you able to query for sysdate field in table dual.
SQL> select sysdate from dual;
SYSDATE
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15-SEP-11

SYSDATE format is set in: nls_date_format.

Following the publication: Lateral SQL Injection: A New Class of Vulnerability in Oracle, (http://www.databasesecurity.com/dbsec/lateral-sql-injection.pdf) published by David Litchfield, FEB/2008.

This post provides an overview and a demonstration on how this issue is still easily exploitable in Oracle Database.

Vulnerability
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Nls_date_format allows input of any string without filtering.
Example:  alter session set nls_date_format = ‘”the time is:”… hh24:mi’

After running that command, the SYSDATE will …

Time-Based Blind SQL Injection

 
Overview
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Blind SQL Injection is an attack which the attacker gets an indication for the query execution success. The attacker doesn’t get the query results.
Most of the time, the indication bases on server errors or customized application errors.

Time-Based Blind SQL Injection
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Sometimes the attacker might not be able to identify the query execution success, because the server/application doesn’t show any error.
One of the techniques to get an indication for the query execution success called Time-Based Blind SQL Injection.
With this technique, the attacker executes functions that take some time to finish (for example: Benchmark, Delay, etc.). By measuring the time took the application to response, the attacker might be able to identify if the query executed successfully or the query execution failed. …

Is your web environment secure? All of it?

Many people believe that if they’ve installed a network firewall, they’ve done their duty. They think that a firewall is like a strong barrier or moat protecting their information assets and that no more is needed. Wrong! Just as in times of old, tunnels can be dug under the moat, ladders can be used to scale the wall, and secret passageways can be found into the castle.

A web environment has four layers that need protection: the Network level, the Application level, the Operating System level and the Database level. Most people think of these layers as being one within the other, like concentric circles. They reason that if they protect the outermost level, the inner levels are automatically protected.

“That is simply not so!” explains David Maman, CTO of GreenSQL. “Hackers can attack a Web environment at each level independently, and security issues at each level need …

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Hi Everyone,

I would like to personally invite you to a GreenSQL Express Webinar,
I’ll be demonstrating GreenSQL Express, the free and simple way to keep your information private and safe.

On Wednesday, March 16th (just 2 weeks from now),
It’s called “How to Protect Sensitive Information in Minutes: Setting up GreenSQL Express with Basic Security Rules”

If you’re serious about protecting your data, you need to hear and see how it’s done. I’ll talk about:

1. Why you need a Database firewall / security solution
2. Where and How to install GreenSQL Express in your infrastructure
3. How to use GreenSQL Express to protect you database
4. How to create the security polices you need in minutes
5. How to protect your database from SQL injection attacks
6. How to implement a separation of duties in your database access
7. How to maintain business continuity …

From the Security threat report 2011 by Sophos, Page 46:

“Cybercrime is encroaching more and more into the business space. Industrial espionage, spearphishing of important employees to breach network boundaries and mass theft of customer information are more diffcult to detect and have very serious consequences. At the same time, network boundaries are becoming ever more indistinct and porous as new technologies enable greater access from remote workers and mobile devices. In addition, legal requirements place greater emphasis on traceability and compliance with predefned standards of data hygiene.

Increasing amounts of sensitive data is stored, accessed and manipulated in databases connected to company websites as businesses increasingly interact with their customers through the Internet. As a result, it’s become as easy to …

We are proud to announce the release of GreenSQL Pro and GreenSQL Light, our first commercial Unified Database Security solutions, designed to provide all organizations – from small and medium businesses all the way to large enterprises – robust database security at an affordable price.

“Commercial Unified Database Security solutions” is a mouthful. Let’s look at what that means.

For us, commercial has several meanings. First, we have designed GreenSQL Pro for commercial organizations; second, we charge a modest fee for it; and third, unlike our open source code, we take full responsibility for it.

How about unified? To be unified, something must first have parts. GreenSQL Pro and GreenSQL Light include many aspects of database security within them, all contributing to their primary mission: securing databases. We’ll be discussing some of those aspects below.

And of course, there’s database. …

Since the early days of GreenSQL, many people have written us asking why exactly they should implement a database security solution if they have already hardened their web application and are using a web application firewall, like mod_security, or even a professional closed source web application firewall such as Imperva, Breach, or F5.

The answer is not as simple as you may think, and I’m not going to preach to you about the great advantages using GreenSQL in front of your MySQL or PostgreSQL Database.

I’m going to highlight a few obvious current situations which will help you see the full picture of your Database security needs.

What is the core of the company?

When you come right down to it, the Database, eventually, is the core of your company or organization. All the information that the company is built upon is located in the Database. Without it, your company or organization cannot …