Re: UTL_FILE.FOpen ends with Ora-00600 internal error when file pathis null (Win2K 8.1.7.0.0)

Karsten Farrell wrote:

> Daniel Morgan wrote:
> > FC wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Dear all,
> >>I just happen to find out that passing (involuntarily) a null value in
> >>the file path parameter of the Fopen function of built-package
> >>UTL_FILE causes an ORA-00600 internal error. Of course it doesn't make
> >>sense to pass a null to that parameter, but there it is.
> >>The bad side is that whenever such event occurs, Oracle executable
> >>goes to 100% CPU usage while dumping information to the udump
> >>directory, which may take several minutes to complete and choke any
> >>other existing session.
> >>
> >>This happened on a Windows 2000 platform with 8.1.7.0.0 installed.
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>Flavio
> >
> >
> > You must contact Oracle for support on an ORA-00600.
> >
> > If you don't have a support contract. Download the latest 8.1.7 and
> > upgrade.
> >
> > Daniel Morgan
> >
>
> Maybe you should try that one in the OpenHack contest sponsored by eWeek
> magazine. A couple of years ago, the hacker won $1000 for breaking into
> Oracle by using the default password to the MDSYS account (after reading
> in the Oracle docs how complicated it is to change without breaking
> something else and figuring Ziff-Davis Pub hadn't done it).

$1000 for something that simple. Darn.

But then again anyone that doesn't change the default passwords, all of them, deserves what they get.

Daniel Morgan Received on Wed Oct 23 2002 - 17:44:07 CDT