[oracle] - passwords in clear text and password protected roles bypass

Hi Everyone,

I have just put two short papers on my website, the first discussing
clear text password transmissions when changing a users password in the
database and the second discussing the same issue with set role {blah}
identified by {blah}. The second paper also discusses an issue I found
whereby you can bypass the password protection assigned to a role. Both
papers describe the issues and also suggest some solutions. The papers
are available from:

http://www.petefinnigan.com/ramblings/passwords_in_clear_text.htm
and
http://www.petefinnigan.com/ramblings/issues_with_roles_and_passwords.ht
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Hope you find them useful.

kind regards

Pete

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Pete Finnigan
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