CVE-2016-1569

6.5 MEDIUM

Published: January 13, 2016 Modified: May 06, 2026

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177119.html

Source: security@debian.org

http://sourceforge.net/p/firebird/code/62783/

Source: security@debian.org

http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-5068

Source: security@debian.org

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/2

Source: security@debian.org

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/3

Source: security@debian.org

Exploit

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177119.html