National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2620
Original release date:07/29/2009
Last revised:09/04/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: BID
Name: 35842
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-8340
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-8317
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514463
External Source: MILW0RM
Name: 9295
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.coresecurity.com/content/firebird-sql-dos
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-2563
Type: Advisory