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Fedora 10: 2009-8317 Moderate: Firebird DoS Threat Resolved

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Calendar Grey August 31, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Problems with Firebird upgrades addressed in the latest Fedora 10 patch. Please adhere to the guidelines for reinstallation and troubleshooting directory errors.
Upgrade from previous package version may be a problem since previous version remove /var/run/firebird and it shouldn't This release fix this problem for future updates If yo...

Summary

This package contains common files between firebird-classic and

firebird-superserver. You will need this if you want to use either one.

Update Information:

Upgrade from previous package version may be a problem since previous version remove /var/run/firebird and it shouldn't This release fix this problem for future updates If you are in that case (no longer /var/run/firebird directory after upgrade), just reinstall firebird-2.1.3.18185.0-2 package or create /var/run/firebird owned by user firebird

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora software update DoS database management

Change Log

* Wed Aug 5 2009 Philippe Makowski 2.1.3.18185.0-2 - rename /usr/bin/gstat to /usr/bin/gstat-fb to avoid conflict with ganglia-gmond (rh #515510) - remove stupid rm -rf in postun * Thu Jul 30 2009 Philippe Makowski 2.1.3.18185.0-1 - Update to 2.1.3.18185 - Fix rh #514463 - Remove doc patch - Apply backport initscript patch * Sat Jul 11 2009 Philippe Makowski 2.1.2.18118.0-11 - change xinetd script (rh #506528) - add missing library (and header files) for build php4-interbase module (rh #506728) - update README.fedora - automatically created user now have /bin/nologin as shell to make things a little more secure

References


[ 1 ] Bug #514463 - CVE-2009-2620 firebird-superserver: NULL ptr dereference (DoS) by handling auxiliary connection(s) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514463

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update firebird' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: firebird
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 2.1.3.18185.0
Release: 2.fc10
URL: https://www.firebirdsql.org/
Summary: SQL relational database management system

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora software update DoS database management

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