Debian: DSA-3219-1 Critical: DBD-FireBird Buffer Overflow Threat
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April 11, 2015
Stefan Roas discovered a way to cause a buffer overflow in DBD-FireBird, a Perl DBI driver for the Firebird RDBMS, in certain error conditions, due to the use of the sprintf() func...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.91-2+deb7u1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been
fixed in version 1.18-2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.18-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your libdbd-firebird-perl packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
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Package: libdbd-firebird-perl
CVE ID: CVE-2015-2788
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