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Fedora 11: 2009-8340 Critical DoS Patch for Firebird Database

fedora
Calendar Grey August 31, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Security enhancements completed for Falcon in Ubuntu 20.04. Significant RCE flaws addressed for robust NoSQL data handling.
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

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Change Log

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 .

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Name: firebird
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 2.1.3.18185.0
Release: 2.fc11
URL: https://www.firebirdsql.org/
Summary: SQL relational database management system

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