PT-2009-5020
CVE-2009-2620
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Published
2009-07-29
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Updated
2025-10-10
Description by
CVSS 2.0
5.0
MediumMetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Firebird SQL versions 1.5 through 1.5.5
Firebird SQL versions 2.0 through 2.0.5
Firebird SQL versions 2.1 through 2.1.2
Firebird SQL versions 2.5 through 2.5 Beta 1
Description
The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a daemon crash. This is achieved by sending a malformed op connect request message, which can trigger an infinite loop or a NULL pointer dereference in the src/remote/server.cpp component of fbserver.exe.
Recommendations
For Firebird SQL versions 1.5 through 1.5.5, update to version 1.5.6 or later.
For Firebird SQL versions 2.0 through 2.0.5, update to version 2.0.6 or later.
For Firebird SQL versions 2.1 through 2.1.2, update to version 2.1.3 or later.
For Firebird SQL versions 2.5 through 2.5 Beta 1, update to version 2.5 Beta 2 or later.
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