Summary
The remote host is missing an update to firebird
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:186.
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:186
Insight
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.
Affected: Enterprise Server 5.0
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-2620 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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