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USN-3929-1: Firebird vulnerabilities

2 April 2019

Several security issues were fixed in Firebird.

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Releases

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)

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Related notices

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