[ MDVSA-2009:186 ] firebird

[dude67]

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Package : firebird
Date : August 1, 2009
Affected: Enterprise Server 5.0
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Problem Description:

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in firebird:

src/remote/server.cpp in fbserver.exe in Firebird SQL 1.5 before
1.5.6, 2.0 before 2.0.6, 2.1 before 2.1.3, and 2.5 before 2.5 Beta 2
allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash)
via a malformed op_connect_request message that triggers an infinite
loop or NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2009-2620).

This update provides fixes for this vulnerability.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2009-2620
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