Improper Input Validation Affecting firebirdsql/firebird package, versions [,2.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
24.69% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FIREBIRDSQLFIREBIRD-2380923
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Jul 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jul 2009

CVE-2009-2620  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade firebirdsql/firebird to version 2.1.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation 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.

CVSS Scores

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