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Sid
15896

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in Firebird.

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Impact:
Denial of Service.   

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Detailed Information:
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.

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Affected Systems:
Firebirdsql Firebird 1.5
Firebirdsql Firebird 1.5.1
Firebirdsql Firebird 1.5.2
Firebirdsql Firebird 1.5.2.4731
Firebirdsql Firebird 1.5.3.4870
Firebirdsql Firebird 1.5.4.4910
Firebirdsql Firebird 1.5.5
Firebirdsql Firebird 2.0.0
Firebirdsql Firebird 2.0.0.12748
Firebirdsql Firebird 2.0.1
Firebirdsql Firebird 2.0.2
Firebirdsql Firebird 2.0.3
Firebirdsql Firebird 2.5

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:
Medium.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2009-2620:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-2620
  
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