Package: firebird1.5 Severity: grave Tags: security Hi, the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was published for firebird1.5.
CVE-2007-4992[0]:
| Stack-based buffer overflow in the process_packet function in
| fbserver.exe in Firebird SQL 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to execute
| arbitrary code via a long request to TCP port 3050.
If you fix this vulnerability please also include the CVE id
in your changelog entry.
I had a look at remote/server.cpp, the vulnerable code is
the following:
3049: TEXT msg[128];
...
3064 if (string = port- port_user_name) {
3065 sprintf(msg,
3066 "SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for %*.*s",
3067 string- str_length, string- str_length,
3068 string- str_data);
3069 gds__log(msg, 0);
For further information:
[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4992
Kind regards
Nico
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