Oracle - Outside-In '.DOCX' File Parsing Memory Corruption

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Title:   Oracle Outside-In DOCX File Parsing Memory Corruption

Platforms:   Windows

CVE:

Secunia:

{PRL}:   2015-04

Author:   Francis Provencher (Protek Research Lab’s)

Website:   http://www.protekresearchlab.com/

Twitter:   @ProtekResearch

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1) Introduction
2) Report Timeline
3) Technical details
4) POC

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1) Introduction
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Oracle Outside In Technology provides software developers with a comprehensive solution to access, transform, and control the contents of over 500 unstructured file formats. From the latest office suites, such as Microsoft Office 2007, to specialty formats and legacy files, Outside In Technology provides software developers with the tools to transform unstructured files into controllable information.

(http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/embedded/025613.htm)

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2) Report Timeline
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2015-02-17: Francis Provencher from Protek Research Lab’s found the issue;
2015-02-18: Oracle Security Alerts confirmed the issue;
2015-04-15: Oracle release a Patch for this issue.

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3) Technical details
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The vulnerability is caused due to a certain value in a document, which can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted document.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

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4) POC

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http://protekresearchlab.com/exploits/PRL-2015-04.docx
https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/36788.docx