CVE-2001-0515 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Oracle Listener component of Oracle 7.3 and 8i databases. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a specially crafted connection packet with an excessively large "offset_to_data" value, causing the listener to crash. This vulnerability has a medium severity CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a low attack complexity with no authentication required, leading to partial availability impact. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion, suggesting awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:database_server:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 8.1.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:oracle8i:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oracle:oracle8i:8.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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