Firebird Remove Buffer Overflow Proof of concept was posted on BugTraq
The bug is the one fixed in the next stable releases and is not present in firebird 2.1 rc1& rc2 here is the description:
Integer overflow in Firebird SQL 1.0.3 and earlier, 1.5.x before 1.5.6, 2.0.x before 2.0.4, and 2.1.x before 2.1.0 RC1 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code
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Loading...The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that download kits for the second (and hopefully, last) V.2.1 release candidate are now available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX Intel 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. You are invited to test it with as much rigour and vigor as you like and report your experiences (good or bad) back to the firebird-devel or the firebird-test list.
As always, please be patient if the files you want haven’t made it out to the mirrors at your first attempt.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...On April 23-24, 2008 Interop Moscow will take place in the very heart of Moscow, FORUM Hall exhibition centre. The Congress and Exhibition will bring together more than 5000 IT experts and business managers from Russian and CIS seeking for an efficacious use of information technologies.
Dmitry Yemanov will be speaking at the conference with the talk “Firebird: The Universal Open-Source Database“.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I'm pleased to announce the 0.9.4 release of SQLObject.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The new version of FirebirdClient (ADO.NET Data Provider) is available for download: http://firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider .
It’s mainly a bugfix release. Work on Entity Framework support still continues.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The 5th edition of the Firebird Developers Day (FDD) will take place in Piracicaba-SP, Brazil, at 17/July. More details will be published in the upcoming weeks.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The goal of this project is to provide information about how various pieces of software (e.g. operating systems, DBMS and others) sort textual data, in the form of easy-to-read charts.
Check Firebird collation charts.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A new survey from Evans Data, about software development and IDEs, mention Firebird as one of the choices for the question “Which of the following databases are you currently using?“. Let’s make some noise! 😉
PS: People who participates in the survey can win US$ 500.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...you can install flamerobin 0.8.5 snapshot into ubuntu 8.04 by adding these lines in the /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mapopa/ubuntu hardy main
$sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install flamerobin
$flamerobin
and now check the about box
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...you can test it in debian unstable (amd64 and i386) from debian sid repository
http://packages.debian.org/sid/flamerobin
Other binary snapshots for flamerobin 0.8.5 are here
(you can tests on other operating systems: Linux, MacosX, windows,wine)
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