Firebird Relational Database Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Firebird Relational Database Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
http://risesecurity.org/advisory/RISE-2007003/
Published: October 3, 2007
Category: General news
Firebird related news
Flash demo: IB LogManager and hot-standby database environment in 17 minutes
The following flash demo shows you how easy it is to integrate an audit trail in your Firebird database and how fast you can build up a hot-standby database environment with the IB LogManager product family. It’s all done in 17 minutes.
Check it out here:
http://www.iblogmanager.com/download/demos/iblm/iblm_hotstandby.htm
Silver sponsorship
From the Firebird Foundation blog:
Today we received a nice cheque from David Culbertson, of CounterWorks Inc., Colorado, U.S.A., to renew the company’s silver sponsorship for a year. Thank you, CounterWorks!
Let me remind that anyone can contribute with the Foundation (with any value) and help the project to move faster and strongly.
Firebird Maestro 7.9 released
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SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Maestro 7.9, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development. |
New version features:
- Starting with this version you can reorder columns for existing tables. It is also possible to reorder parameters for a stored procedure.
- Now it is possible to cancel a long running query execution (Firebird 2.1) and data fetching (all Firebird versions).
- The SQL Formatter for DML statements (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE) is fulfilled.
- The UTF8 character set is added to the Create Database Wizard.
- BLOB Viewer: it is now possible to save all BLOBs from a table to a given directory.
- Data Import Wizard: the speed of loading of Excel files has been significantly increased.
There are also some other new features. Full press-release is available here:
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4671/
Last chance: Early bird discount ends today Sep 20!
Last chance: Early bird discount ends today Sep 20!
Time is running out to save money through early bird registration to attend 5th International Firebird Database Conference 2007 in Hamburg, Germany. Attendees who are members of the Firebird Foundation can subscribe using the early bird discount prices until oct 10.
Conference Program and Registration Form: http://www.firebird-conference.com/fbconf2007.zip
Firebird 2.0.1 RPMs for Fedora Core 6
Arkady Shejn have built Fedora Core 6 Firebird 2.0.1 RPMs for i386 and x86_64.
Testers are welcome.
Firebird 2.0.1 RPMs for Fedora 7
Arkady Shejn have created Fedora 7 Firebird 2.0.1 RPMs for i386 and x86_64.
Testers are welcome.
flamerobin/firebird livecd+bootable usb key with mandriva this time
I made a Mandriva Live CD with Firebird
Inside is Mandriva 2007.1, Firebird 2.0.1 Classic, Flamerobin, Ibwebadmin,
kinterbasdb.
New conferences page
The main Firebird site now has a page dedicated for listing future conferences and seminars. You can check it here.
Firebird Data Wizard 7.8 released
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SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Data Wizard 7.8, a powerful Windows GUI utility for Firebird data management. |
New version features:
- ASP.NET Generator Wizard is implemented.
- New Shell Application with Ribbon toolbars (like Office 2007) and more.
- Unicode/UTF-8 support.
- PHP Generator: now it is possible to create a lookup menu for a column using a custom value list (not only foreign keys).
- Data Pump: now optimized for Microsoft.Jet engine.
- Data Import: the speed of loading of Excel files was significantly increased.
- All the wizards: a lot of minor improvements and corrections were made.
There are also versions for other DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc), see http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4457/