On Aug 14, 8:58 pm, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
> PALDEAL wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
>
> > Has anyone delt with Oracle core files and the information in the core
> > files. I understand that the information is different based when the
> > core was dumped. From security presepctive, is there a chance that it
> > could contain lot of data stored in SGA or any data for that matter?
> > How easy is it to retreive the data out of the core file? What are
> > the security risks sending this core file via internet.
>
> > Thanks
>
> > og
>
> Giving anyone physical access to an Oracle server is a security risk.
> Whether they can get to the core dump files (there shouldn't be any)
> or whether they get to the control files, or the log files, it really
> doesn't much matter.
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> University of Washington
> damor..._at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
> Puget Sound Oracle Users Groupwww.psoug.org
Thanks for the response. The question was more related to sending the
core files to the OS vendor. We would like to know if the core files
will contain data and is it secure enough to send core files via
insecure channel.
Received on Wed Aug 15 2007 - 10:13:22 CDT
