openSUSE Security Update: firebird: fix for remote stack overflow ______________________________________________________________________________
Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2013:0504-1 Rating: important References: #808268 Cross-References: CVE-2013-2492 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.4 ______________________________________________________________________________
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
Description:
This update fixes a bug which allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a stack overflow in server code, resulting in either server crash or even code execution as the user running firebird.
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE 11.4:
zypper in -t patch 2013-43
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64):
firebird-2.1.3.18185.0-16.1 firebird-classic-2.1.3.18185.0-16.1 firebird-classic-debuginfo-2.1.3.18185.0-16.1 firebird-debuginfo-2.1.3.18185.0-16.1 firebird-debugsource-2.1.3.18185.0-16.1 firebird-devel-2.1.3.18185.0-16.1 firebird-devel-debuginfo-2.1.3.18185.0-16.1 firebird-doc-2.1.3.18185.0-16.1 firebird-filesystem-2.1.3.18185.0-16.1 firebird-superserver-2.1.3.18185.0-16.1 firebird-superserver-debuginfo-2.1.3.18185.0-16.1 libfbclient2-2.1.3.18185.0-16.1 libfbclient2-debuginfo-2.1.3.18185.0-16.1 libfbembed2-2.1.3.18185.0-16.1 libfbembed2-debuginfo-2.1.3.18185.0-16.1
References:
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2492.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/808268