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Fedora 20 Security Advisory: perl-DBD-Firebird Buffer Overflow Fixed

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Calendar Grey April 18, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A security notice regarding perl-DBD-Firebird in Fedora highlights vulnerability to buffer overflow along with several critical fixes.
DBD::Firebird 1.19 [2015-03-22] * Fix $VERSION in Firebird.pm * Fix typo in ISC_PASSWORD spelling * Positive logic and early return

Summary

DBD::Firebird is a Perl module that works with the DBI module to provide

access to Firebird databases.

Update Information:

DBD::Firebird 1.19 [2015-03-22] ============================== * Fix $VERSION in Firebird.pm * Fix typo in ISC_PASSWORD spelling * Positive logic and early return * Allow re-executing/fetch on prepared sth [RT#92810, Tux] * Add rests for $dbh->{Name} and others * Implement $dbh->{Name} * Fix attributions to Mike Pomraning * use strict and warnings in all modules * add a test for inserting/fetching float and double numbers as an attempt to reproduce RT#101650 * fix File::Which configure prerequisite declaration [RT#101672, dmn] * 03-dbh-attr.t: plan tests after creating the TestFirebird object * Buffer Overflow in dbdimp.c * use snprintf instead of sprintf everywhere

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Change Log

* Fri Apr 3 2015 Robert Scheck 1.19-1 - Upgrade to 1.19 (#1207216) * Sun Oct 12 2014 Robert Scheck 1.18-1 - Upgrade to 1.18 * Thu Aug 28 2014 Jitka Plesnikova - 1.11-7 - Perl 5.20 rebuild * Sun Aug 17 2014 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.11-6 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild * Sat Jun 7 2014 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.11-5 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1207216 - perl-DBD-Firebird: buffer overflow in error messages handling in IB_SQLtimeformat() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207216

Update Instructions

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

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Name: perl-DBD-Firebird
Product: Fedora 20
Version: 1.19
Release: 1.fc20
URL: https://metacpan.org/dist/DBD-Firebird
Summary: A Firebird interface for perl

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