Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Firebird 2, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. These issues are caused by buffer overflow errors in the "isc_attach_database()", "isc_create_database()", and "process_packet()" functions when processing malformed data, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected database or execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted request.
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Adriano Lima and Carvalho Valle (RISE Security) and ZDI.
ChangeLog
2007-10-05 : Initial release
2007-10-10 : Updated Description and References
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