CVE-2007-3527 Information

Description

Integer overflow in Firebird 2.0.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via certain database operations with multi-byte character sets that trigger an attempt to use the value 65536 for a 16-bit integer which is treated as 0 and causes an infinite loop on zero-length data.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/43782 http://secunia.com/advisories/29501 http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-1063 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1529 http://www.firebirdsql.org/rlsnotes/Firebird-2.0.1-ReleaseNotes.pdf http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28473