Bug 1172445 (CVE-2014-9323)

Summary:	CVE-2014-9323 firebird: malformed network packet can cause denial of service
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	carnil, jrusnack, makowski.fedora
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	firebird 2.1.7, firebird 2.5.3SU1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2014-12-31 20:35:50 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1172446, 1172447
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Description Vincent Danen 2014-12-10 04:52:46 UTC

It was found that an unauthenticated remote attacker could send a malformed network packet to a firebird server, which would cause the server to crash.

http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/news/security-updates-for-v2-1-and-v2-5-series-66011/
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-4630
http://sourceforge.net/p/firebird/code/60331/

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2014-12-10 04:53:03 UTC

Created firebird tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1172446]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1172447]

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2014-12-10 04:56:00 UTC

Note that the Mageia bug tracker has further information of interest particularly for testing:

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14726

CVE request:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/12/10/4

Comment 3 Philippe Makowski 2014-12-10 10:02:07 UTC

A CVE request have been done by upstream, but no ID yet

Updates are allready submitted :

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/firebird-2.5.2.26539.0-14.fc21
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/firebird-2.5.2.26539.0-10.fc20
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/firebird-2.1.5.18496.0-5.el5
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/firebird-2.5.3.26778.0-2.el6
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/firebird-2.5.3.26778.0-2.el7

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2014-12-20 08:40:57 UTC

firebird-2.5.2.26539.0-14.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-12-20 08:49:42 UTC

firebird-2.5.2.26539.0-10.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-12-26 19:47:27 UTC

firebird-2.5.3.26778.0-2.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2014-12-26 19:47:56 UTC

firebird-2.1.5.18496.0-5.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2014-12-26 19:49:49 UTC

firebird-2.5.3.26778.0-2.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.