Security service provider Core Security has announced the discovery of a vulnerability in the Firebird open source database. Attackers could exploit the vulnerability to inject arbitrary code onto the server.
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Loading...Firebird is prone to an integer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to ensure that integer values aren’t overrun. Attackers may exploit this issue to overflow a buffer and to corrupt process memory.
Attackers may be able to execute arbitrary machine code in the context of an affected application. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in a denial-of-service condition.
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...FBCopy is an open source command-line tool for copying and comparing
data in Firebird databases. It has the following features:
* copying data between databases (sorted by dependency tree)
* copying generator values (since version 1.70)
* comparing table fields
* comparing data (with detailed output in HTML)
* open source under MIT license
* cross platform – works on Windows and Linux
* works with all Firebird versions (tested 1.0 – 2.1)
* easy to integrate into batch jobs
* light for remote use via SSH
Version 1.70 introduces a new definition format which supports both
tables and generators, so now you can copy generator values as well.
The new version is backward compatible (i.e. it can read the
definition files generated with previous versions of FBCopy).
Linux binary in the package is compiled against FBClient 2, so it will
work with Firebird 2.0 and 2.1 (previous versions worked only with 1.0
and 1.5 servers).
Download (contains Linux and Windows binaries and source code):
http://www.firebirdfaq.org/files/fbcopy-1.70.tgz
Usage examples and more information:
http://fbexport.sourceforge.net
Enjoy.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...If you wanna know what is the best option to be used with Firebird, check this article from IBProvider.
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Linux Journal‘s Readers’ Choice Awards offer the opportunity for readers to vote for their Linux and Open Source favorites. We compiled nominations and came up with the below list — if your favorite is not listed in any category, we encourage you to write-in your vote (it’s also ok to skip voting in categories not applicable to you).
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Jiri wrote on the mailing list
I have a great news for you. 🙂 I’ve got offer from Paul Beach to
continue with developement of NETProvider as lead and maintaining it
etc. I’ve accepted and I’ve got some privileges to do the “maintaining
work”. So the project isn’t dead. I hope we’ll kick-up the FB & .NET.
🙂
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versions. Both will identify themselves as 0.8.3-pre1. I intend to
release them as 0.8.3 shortly, unless someone finds showstoppers.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The Firebird Project team is happy to announce that download kits for the first V.2.1 release candidate are now available – Windows and Linux 32-bit and 64-bit platforms now, MacOSX soon. You are invited to test it furiously and report your experiences (good or bad) back to the firebird-devel 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...The Firebird’s 2008 Roadmap is now public available.
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