USN-3929-1: Firebird vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

• firebird2.5 - A full-featured, open source SQL database derived from Borland InterBase 6.0

Details

It was discovered that Firebird incorrectly handled certain malformed
packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue with a specially
crafted network packet to cause Firebird to crash, resulting in a denial of
service.
(CVE-2014-9323)

It was discovered that Firebird incorrectly handled certain UDF libraries.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2017-6369)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04

• firebird2.5-classic - 2.5.2.26540.ds4-9ubuntu1.1
• firebird2.5-classic-common - 2.5.2.26540.ds4-9ubuntu1.1
• firebird2.5-server-common - 2.5.2.26540.ds4-9ubuntu1.1
• firebird2.5-super - 2.5.2.26540.ds4-9ubuntu1.1
• firebird2.5-superclassic - 2.5.2.26540.ds4-9ubuntu1.1
• libfbclient2 - 2.5.2.26540.ds4-9ubuntu1.1
• libfbembed2.5 - 2.5.2.26540.ds4-9ubuntu1.1
• libib-util - 2.5.2.26540.ds4-9ubuntu1.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2014-9323
• CVE-2017-6369

Related notices

• USN-4822-1: firebird2.5-examples, libfbembed2.5, firebird-dev, firebird2.5-common, firebird2.5-classic, firebird2.5-superclassic, firebird2.5, firebird2.5-server-common, libfbclient2, firebird2.5-doc, libib-util, firebird2.5-common-doc, firebird2.5-super, firebird2.5-classic-common