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Firebird fbudf Module Authenticated Remote Code Execution

May 30, 2018 mariuz Leave a comment

Here is the description for CVE-2017-11509
An authenticated remote attacker can execute arbitrary code in Firebird SQL
Server versions 2.5.7 and 3.0.2 by executing a malformed SQL statement. The
only known solution is to disable external UDF libraries from being loaded. In
order to achieve this, the default configuration has changed to UdfAccess=None.
This will prevent the fbudf module from being loaded, but may also break other
functionality relying on modules.

Here is the Debian security page with the issue : CVE-2017-11509
And here is the original report https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2017-36

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IBProvider “One Time Personal License”

May 21, 2018 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

Hello!

We present new personal license for 32-bit IBProvider called «One Time Personal License (32-bit)».

The new license is meant for all those who would like to create small programs for Firebird and InterBase for WIN32 and .NET platforms.

This is the same full-featured 32-bit provider (prof and lite editions) that is included into licenses for developers and MS SQL. It does not have any technical or time restrictions.

The price for new license is quite symbolic: 99+1 EUR.

Read full news text: http://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_180521-one_time_personal_license.html

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The Frustrations of the long distance Database Application Developer

May 21, 2018 Cantu Leave a comment

Though I have extensive database application development experience, I do not consider myself an expert with the Firebird Database Engine to any degree. The following article is completely based upon observations and experiences during my attempts to learn and understand this highly capable engine. As a result, if there are misunderstandings or mistakes I have promoted in my writing, please do not hesitate to send in comments either correcting them or offering alternatives.

See full article here.

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IBProvider v3.50. Monumental update

May 9, 2018 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

Hello everyone!

We are glad to announce the new update of IBProvider — v3.50.

http://www.ibprovider.com/eng/news/n_180508.html

Main feature of this release — elimination of very old restrictions of our OLE DB provider.

Common list of changes:

Better support of MS SQL
Support of data rereading for updatable sets
Improved error handling
Specific data processing errors fixed
Support of FB 3.0.4 added

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Firebird 3.0.3 is uploaded to Firebird 3.0.x Ubuntu ppa

May 8, 2018 mariuz Leave a comment

Firebird 3.0.3 Package is uploaded into Firebird 3.0.x ppa.

There are packages for Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) , 16.04 (Xenial)

Firebird 3.0.3 changes are available in the release notes

Work in progress for 14.04 (Trusty).

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Read the new white paper “Authentication in Firebird” from IBPhoenix

May 7, 2018 mariuz Leave a comment

Read the new white paper “Authentication in Firebird” from IBPhoenix: Developments introduced in Firebird 3 provide many options for authenticating users attempting to attach to a database. No longer is authentication restricted to a single method: the methods available are determined by the plug-in authentication modules configured in the global and/or database config files.
Also, there are many interesting articles in Documentation area of IBPhoenix website.

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Embedded Server in Firebird 3

May 7, 2018 mariuz Leave a comment

Since Firebird 3 was released, users have sometimes been confused about the “missing” kits for Firebird embedded. We hope this article will demystify the issue and help developers migrating older embedded applications to Firebird 3 and higher.
Read the new white paper by Helen Borrie, Embedded Server in Firebird 3.

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Database .NET 24.8 and dbMigration .NET 8.4 released

May 6, 2018 fishcodelib Leave a comment

Database .NET 24.8 is an innovative, powerful and intuitive multiple database management tool, With it you can easily edit and manage your Firebird database files.

http://fishcodelib.com/Database.htm (Change Log)

dbMigration .NET 8.4 is a simple, easy and intuitive multiple database migration and data synchronization tool, With it you can easily migrate schema and data to Firebird and vice versa.

http://fishcodelib.com/DBMigration.htm (Change Log)

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Jaybird 3.0.4 update

May 5, 2018 Cantu Leave a comment

The Firebird JDBC team is happy to announce the release of Jaybird 3.0.4.

This release of Jaybird introduces two new features: wire protocol encryption and database encryption callback support.

Jaybird 3.0.4 contains the following fixes and changes:

– New feature: Back-ported wire encryption support from Jaybird 4 (JDBC-415)
– Fixed: Native/embedded (JNA) connections truncate varchars to length 255 on read (JDBC-518)
– New feature: Database encryption callback support in pure Java protocol (JDBC-527)

See the Jaybird 3.0.4 release notes for more information. Jaybird 3.0.4 can be downloaded from the JDBC Driver page.

The release is also available on maven:

groupId: org.firebirdsql.jdbc
artifactid: jaybird-jdkXX*
version: 3.0.4

* The artifactId depends on your target Java version: jaybird-jdk18, or jaybird-jdk17

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Sourceforge Community Choice Project of the Month for May is Firebird

May 4, 2018 mariuz Leave a comment

Sourceforge Community Choice Project of the Month for May is Firebird

The voters have spoken! Your "Community Choice" Project of the Month for May is… Firebird! https://t.co/wirK9SId2Z #potm #opensource #FOSS #Firebird

— SourceForge (@sourceforge) May 1, 2018

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