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CVE-2003-0281

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2003-06-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in Firebird 1.0.2 and other versions before 1.5, and possibly other products that use the InterBase codebase, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long INTERBASE environment variable when calling (1) gds_inet_server, (2) gds_lock_mgr, or (3) gds_drop.

Affected products

• FirebirdSQL firebird: 1.0.2

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105259012802997&w=2
• http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2002/Jun/0212.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/8758
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200405-18.xml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7546
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11977
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105259012802997&w=2
• http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2002/Jun/0212.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/8758
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200405-18.xml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7546
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11977

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