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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-3929-1 Moderate: Firebird Remote Threats

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Calendar Grey April 2, 2019
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Numerous vulnerabilities in Firebird have been addressed for Ubuntu users. Ensure your systems are updated to protect against potential remote attacks.
Several security issues were fixed in Firebird.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Firebird.

Software Description:

- firebird2.5: A full-featured, open source SQL database derived from Borland InterBase 6.0

Details:

It was discovered that Firebird incorrectly handled certain malformed

packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue with a specially

crafted network packet to cause Firebird to crash, resulting in a denial of

service.

(CVE-2014-9323)

It was discovered that Firebird incorrectly handled certain UDF libraries.

A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

(CVE-2017-6369)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service remote exploit Ubuntu moderate severity Firebird

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  firebird2.5-classic             2.5.2.26540.ds4-9ubuntu1.1
  firebird2.5-classic-common      2.5.2.26540.ds4-9ubuntu1.1
  firebird2.5-server-common       2.5.2.26540.ds4-9ubuntu1.1
  firebird2.5-super               2.5.2.26540.ds4-9ubuntu1.1
  firebird2.5-superclassic        2.5.2.26540.ds4-9ubuntu1.1
  libfbclient2                    2.5.2.26540.ds4-9ubuntu1.1
  libfbembed2.5                   2.5.2.26540.ds4-9ubuntu1.1
  libib-util                      2.5.2.26540.ds4-9ubuntu1.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2014-9323, CVE-2017-6369

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April 02, 2019

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service remote exploit Ubuntu moderate severity Firebird

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firebird2.5/2.5.2.26540.ds4-9ubuntu1.1

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