RE: Curious Audit Record

From: Kerber, Andrew W. <Andrew.Kerber_at_umb.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:20:04 -0600
Message-ID: <D40740337A3B524FA81DB598D2D7EBB30C391A45@x6009a.umb.corp.umb.com>

At a guess, the trigger compiled automatically when it was called by an action that the user did. Probably generated a create or replace command by forcing a compile.

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Hostetter, Jay M Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:24 PM To: Oracle Discussion List
Subject: Curious Audit Record

I have a DBA_AUDIT_TRAIL record that seems to indicate that a user successfully created a trigger. However, that user only has the "CREATE SESSION" system privilege, along with object privileges granted through roles. I'm trying to figure out how this user created or modified the trigger (which is in another schema). If I look at DBA_OBJECTS, I see that the timestamps for the trigger (TIMESTAMP and LAST_DDL_TIME ) correspond to the time when this audit record was created. So it looks like the user actually did modify the trigger (which was preexisting). I couldn't find any audit records that would indicate that the user was temporarily granted privileges either. I've tried creating/updating the trigger in our corresponding test database, but I get the expected errors (and audit records). Is there some bug that could possibly be related to this? Am I missing some security loophole? I haven't had much luck searching Metalink. Just curious if anybody else has run into this.

We running 9.2.0.7 on AIX.

Thank you,

Jay

TIMESTAMP USERNAME RETURNCODE OWNER OBJ_NAME ACTION_NAME COMMENT_TEXT

--------- ---------- ---------- -------- ------------
--------------------------- ------------------
14-NOV-07 CSR123              0 MDX      TU_TELNO     CREATE TRIGGER

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