[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#463596: firebird2.0: CVE-2008-0467 remote buffer overflow leading to arbitrary code execution

[Nico Golde]

Source: firebird2.0
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for firebird2.0.

CVE-2008-0467[0]:
| Buffer overflow in Firebird before 2.1.0 RC1 might allow remote
| attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long username.

You can find patches for this on:
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-1603?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:cvs-tabpanel

If you fix this vulnerability please also include the CVE id
in your changelog entry.

For further information:
[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0467

Kind regards
Nico

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