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Vulnerability in Firebird database – heise report
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.
Firebird Relational Database ‘protocol.cpp’ XDR Protocol Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability
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.
JVCS 2.50 Beta 1 released – 1st branching support release!
64bit Firebird for MacOS 10.5 (Leopard)
Today I put the finishing touches to a native 64bit port of Firebird for MacOS 10.5 (Leopard).
This required the following changes to the Firebird 2.1 code base (B2_1_Release). For anybody else considering adding a new platform to Firebird then you may find this useful.
Firebird on Solaris 10 (sparc) – howto
I’ve downloaded the latest 2.0.3 Firebird Server for Solaris 10 SPARC,
installed it and had some minor troubles to make it run.
mojoPortal 2.2.4.6 Released
I’m happy to announce the release of mojoPortal 2.2.4.6. Read more
Evaluating open-source DBs -Firebird Enterprise ready ?
The thread is on joelonsoftware.com and the question is about open source databases :
Quick issue, everyone. My company currently uses SQL Server, but we’re going to look at open-source databases because of MS’s crooked licensing rules (to be honest, they only have one SQL license, and are running it on a two-processor machine). They don’t want to shell out the extra $6,000 for another one, and I don’t blame them. Read more
Jaybird 2.1.2 is Released
Jaybird 2.1.2 is released. It is a bugfix release that targets two main issues, JDK 6.0 compatibility and support for INSERT…RETURNING statements. More info at the JDBC Driver page.
Back to the Blog … back to the bug (report)
Today I decide to put up a post about a common requirement which leads to an interesting SQL query (see an example here) using Firebird and Flamerobin, after a few seconds I was writing bug reports