Executive Summary

Informations
Name MDVSA-2009:186 First vendor Publication 2009-08-01
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2009-08-01
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in firebird:

src/remote/server.cpp in fbserver.exe in Firebird SQL 1.5 before 1.5.6, 2.0 before 2.0.6, 2.1 before 2.1.3, and 2.5 before 2.5 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a malformed op_connect_request message that triggers an infinite loop or NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2009-2620).

This update provides fixes for this vulnerability.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:186

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 28

ExploitDB Exploits

id Description
2009-07-28 Firebird SQL op_connect_request main listener shutdown Vulnerability

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-09-11 Name : Firebird SQL 'op_connect_request' Denial Of Service Vulnerability (Win)
File : nvt/gb_firebird_dos_vuln_win.nasl
2009-09-02 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-8317 (firebird)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_8317.nasl
2009-09-02 Name : Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-8340 (firebird)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_8340.nasl
2009-08-17 Name : Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:186 (firebird)
File : nvt/mdksa_2009_186.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
56606 Firebird op_connect_request Packet Handling Remote DoS

Firebird contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when op_connect_request handles a malformed packet, and will result in loss of availability for the port for the 2.x versions and the server for the 1.x versions.

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 Firebird SQL op_connect_request denial of service attempt
RuleID : 15896 - Revision : 9 - Type : SERVER-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-09-02 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-8317.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-02 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-8340.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO