Gentoo: GLSA-200803-02 High: Firebird Remote Code Execution Risks

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200803-02
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: High
     Title: Firebird: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: March 02, 2008
      Bugs: #208034
        ID: 200803-02


Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities in Firebird may allow the remote execution of
arbitrary code.

Background
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Firebird is a multi-platform, 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-r5        >= 2.0.3.12981.0-r5

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Firebird does not properly handle certain types of XDR requests,
resulting in an integer overflow (CVE-2008-0387). Furthermore, it is
vulnerable to a buf...
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