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Gentoo: 200712-06 Normal: Firebird Buffer Overflow Threat

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Numerous stack-oriented buffer overflow vulnerabilities identified in Firebird could enable remote adversaries to run arbitrary code.
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows were discovered in Firebird.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200712-06
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Firebird: Multiple buffer overflows
      Date: December 09, 2007
      Bugs: #195569
        ID: 200712-06


Synopsis
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Multiple stack-based buffer overflows were discovered in Firebird.

Background
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Firebird is a multi-platfrom, open source relational database.

Affected packages
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     Package          /      Vulnerable      /              Unaffected
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  1  dev-db/firebird     < 2.0.3.12981.0-r2        >= 2.0.3.12981.0-r2

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Adriano Lima and Ramon de Carvalho Valle reported that functions
isc_attach_database() and isc_create_database() do not perform proper
boundary checking when processin...
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