DSA-3824-1 firebird2.5 -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3824-1 firebird2.5 -- security update

Date Reported:

29 Mar 2017

Affected Packages:

firebird2.5

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 858641.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-6369.

More information:

George Noseevich discovered that firebird2.5, a relational database system, did not properly check User-Defined Functions (UDF), thus allowing remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code on the firebird server.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.3.26778.ds4-5+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your firebird2.5 packages.