CVE-2016-1569

Publication date 13 January 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

FireBird 2.5.5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by using service manager to invoke the gbak utility with an invalid parameter.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
firebird2.5	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	15.04 vivid	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Notes

msalvatore

Issue introduced in 2.5.5

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
firebird2.5	Upstream: https://sourceforge.net/p/firebird/code/62783/

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H