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Posted on 21 December 2014
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3109-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
December 21, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : firebird2.5
CVE ID : CVE-2014-9323
Debian Bug : 772880
Dmitry Kovalenko discovered that the Firebird database server is prone
to a denial of service vulnerability. An unauthenticated remote attacker
could send a malformed network packet to a firebird server, which would
cause the server to crash.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.2.26540.ds4-1~deb7u2.
For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been
fixed in version 2.5.3.26778.ds4-5.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.3.26778.ds4-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your firebird2.5 packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
