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openSUSE 12.3 Security Advisory: 2013:0496-1 Critical Remote Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey March 20, 2013
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Urgent patch for a significant remote buffer overflow vulnerability impacting Firebird in openSUSE versions 12.1 through 12.3.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update fixes a bug which allows an unauthenticated

remote attacker to cause a stack overflow in server code,

resulting in either server crash or even code execution as

the user running firebird.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 12.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2013-222

- openSUSE 12.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2013-222

- openSUSE 12.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2013-222

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 12.3 (i586 x86_64):

firebird-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

firebird-classic-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

firebird-classic-debuginfo-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

firebird-classic-debugsource-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

firebird-debuginfo-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

firebird-debugsource-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

firebird-devel-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

firebird-superserver-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

firebird-superserver-debuginfo-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

libfbclient2-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

libfbclient2-debuginfo-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

libfbclient2-devel-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

libfbembed-devel-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

libfbembed2_5-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

libfbembed2_5-debuginfo-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

- openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64):

firebird-32bit-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

firebird-debuginfo-32bit-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

libfbclient2-32bit-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

libfbclient2-debuginfo-32bit-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

- openSUSE 12.3 (noarch):

firebird-doc-2.5.2.26539-2.5.1

- openSUSE 12.2 (i586 x86_64):

firebird-2.5.2.26539-2.8.1

firebird-classic-2.5.2.26539-2.8.1

firebird-classic-debuginfo-2.5.2.26539-2.8.1

firebird-classic-debugsource-2.5.2.26539-2.8.1...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2492.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2013:0496-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 12.3 openSUSE 12.2 openSUSE 12.1 .

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