CVE-2016-1569

Description

FireBird 2.5.5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by using service manager to invoke the gbak utility with an invalid parameter.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177119.html
• http://sourceforge.net/p/firebird/code/62783/
• http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-5068
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/3
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177119.html
• http://sourceforge.net/p/firebird/code/62783/
• http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-5068
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/3

CWEs

CWE-20