Fwd: Oracle DBMS_ASSERT and the October 2005 CPU

This from BugTraq, and probably of interest to many of us.

• Forwarded message ---------- From: NGSSoftware Insight Security Research <nisr_at_nextgenss.com> Date: Nov 8, 2005 4:57 PM Subject: Oracle DBMS_ASSERT and the October 2005 CPU To: bugtraq_at_securityfocus.com, ntbugtraq_at_listserv.ntbugtraq.com

Whilst there are problems with the Oracle October 2005 Critical Patch Update, it's not all bad news....

There is a great deal of evidence in this patch that Oracle are beginning to treat security properly. They've introduced a new package PL/SQL package DBMS_ASSERT into the RDBMS. Whilst DBMS_ASSERT was first released as part of the new10g Release 2 it has been packported. Oracle use this package to sanitize user input to help prevent SQL injection. As this package has not been documented NGSResearch have done so aqs we feel that third-party Oracle app developers could benefit by using the package. This, and other papers, can be found at http://www.ngssoftware.com/papers.htm .

Cheers,
The NGSResearch Team

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