CVE-2016-1569

MEDIUM

Firebird 2.5.5 - Authenticated Denial of Service via gbak Utility Invalid Parameter

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (5)

Core 5

Core References

Exploit mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/3

Various Sources x_refsource_confirm

http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-5068

Product x_refsource_confirm

http://sourceforge.net/p/firebird/code/62783/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177119.html

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/2

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0230

EPSS Percentile 81.3%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-20

Status published

Products (1)

firebirdsql/firebird 2.5.5

Published Jan 13, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026