Security Updates available for Mageia 2 and Cauldron
New Firebird packages that fix security bug #9322 in Mageia are available for Mageia 2 and Cauldron
Annoucements about Firebird oficial releases.
New Firebird packages that fix security bug #9322 in Mageia are available for Mageia 2 and Cauldron
An important security fix for Firebird is pushed to Fedora and EPEL
Please update your servers.
Here is how the patch looks if you want to apply to other Linux distros
FDB release 1.0 is out:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fdb
Improvements:
– Removed dependency on presence of fbclient library at import time. This caused some confusion to new users when fdb install failed when Firebird was not (yet) installed.
Bugs Fixed:
The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 2.2.2.
See http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/jdbc-driver/ for the downloadlinks.
The release is also available on maven:
<groupId>org.firebirdsql.jdbc</groupId>
<artifactId>jaybird-jdkXX</artifactId>
<version>2.2.2</version>
The artifactId depends on your target Java version: jaybird-jdk15,
jaybird-jdk16 or jaybird-jdk17
The following has been changed or fixed in Jaybird 2.2.2:
News via Mark Rotteveel tweet
I just released Jaybird 2.2.2 newsitem and maven artifacts should appear in a day or so
Update: NewsItem apeared on the main site also on FirebirdNews
Here is the New Roadmap for the Year 2013
Firebird SQL 3.0 Alpha 1 soon according to the Roadmap
New firebird packages are released for CentOS 6 (RHEL 6) in the EPEL repository with the following Changelog :
added patch from upstream to fix Firebird CORE-4011 and RH #886578
Here is the full text for the CVE-2012-5529
TraceManager in Firebird 2.5.0 and 2.5.1, when trace is enabled, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) by preparing an empty dynamic SQL query.
Solution to this Security vulnerability is to Upgrade to Firebird 2.5.2
The packaging is ready and anybody wanting to build the package can
find the sources in the Git repository[1]. Since Debian is in a freeze
preparing to its next release, I asked the release team for a freeze
exception[2]. It would be great to have the final release in
Debian/wheezy.
[1] http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/2.5.git;a=summary
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/693216
sudo su
apt-get git-core devscripts
apt-get build-dep firebird2.5
git clone http://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-firebird/2.5.git
cd 2.5
git-buildpackage
Ignore the last error debsign: gpg error occurred! Aborting (it only for Debian maintainers who sign the package like Damyan)
all the packages will be in ../
you can install for example firebird super classic this way
cd ../
sudo dpkg -i firebird2.5-superclassic* firebird2.5-common* firebird2.5-server-common* firebird2.5-classic-common*
ps: the above instructions were tested on Ubuntu 12.10 , Stable Firebird ppa is updated for all Ubuntu Releases
Here are the Firebird 2.5.2 packages for Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux