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.
References
- [oss-security] 20160110 CVE Request: FireBird RDBMS: authenticated clients crash FireBird when running gbak with invalid parameter mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20160110 Re: CVE Request: FireBird RDBMS: authenticated clients crash FireBird when running gbak with invalid parameter mailing-list
- http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-5068
- http://sourceforge.net/p/firebird/code/62783/
- FEDORA-2016-bec6b9c395 vendor-advisory