CVE-2016-1569
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
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
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| firebirdsql | firebird | 2.5.5 | |
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
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.