Re: SQL Injection Concern

Mercadante, Thomas F wrote:

>Jon,
>
>You make a table read-only by granting only "read" access to it.
>
>Tom
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Knight, Jon [mailto:jknight_at_concordefs.com]
>Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 12:25 PM
>To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>Subject: RE: SQL Injection Concern
>
>Thanks all for the suggestions. BTW, We have an upgrade on the way, but
>we're still on 8i ...
>
>A read-only table is new to me. How do I make it read only? By putting it
>in a read only tablespace? Or, is there another way?
>
>Thanks,
>Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:thomas.mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us]
>Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 10:48 AM
>To: 'jknight_at_concordefs.com'; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>Subject: RE: SQL Injection Concern
>
>Can you not control what gets put into this table? Make it read-only?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Knight, Jon [mailto:jknight_at_concordefs.com]
>Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:33 AM
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>Subject: SQL Injection Concern
>
> We've got a table listing stored programs that need to execute after
>various application activity. My first thought is to just use "execute
>immediate" on the stored program. But this will allow anyone to insert a
>row into our table and execute arbitrary code. I'm interested in any
>suggestions or solutions you've implemented to tighten up security in such a
>situation.
>
>Thanks,
>Jon Knight
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create or replace trigger readonly
before insert, update or delete
begin
raise_application_error(-20001,'Table is READ ONLY. Please restart the database and retry');
end;

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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
Ext. 121


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