[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#539478: CVE-2009-2620: denial of service (daemon crash) via a malformed op_connect_request message

[Giuseppe Iuculano]

Package: firebird2.1
Severity: serious
Tags: security patch

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Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for firebird2.1.

CVE-2009-2620[0]:
| src/remote/server.cpp in fbserver.exe in Firebird SQL 1.5 before
| 1.5.6, 2.0 before 2.0.6, 2.1 before 2.1.3, and 2.5 before 2.5 Beta 2
| allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash)
| via a malformed op_connect_request message that triggers an infinite
| loop or NULL pointer dereference.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2620
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2009-2620
    http://www.coresecurity.com/content/firebird-sql-dos
    Patch: http://firebird.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/firebird/firebird2/src/remote/server.cpp?r1=1.158.2.6&r2=1.158.2.7&view=patch

Cheers,
Giuseppe.

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