CVE-2004-2043

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-05-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in ibserver for Firebird Database 1.0 and other versions before 1.5, and possibly other products that use the InterBase codebase, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long database name, as demonstrated using the gsec command.

Affected products

Borland Software Interbase: 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 6.4, 6.5, 7.0 (+1)
Borland Software Interbase Superserver: 6.0
FirebirdSQL firebird: 1.0

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-06/0027.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108611386202493&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/11756
http://secunia.com/advisories/19350
http://securitytracker.com/id?1010381
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1014
http://www.osvdb.org/6408
http://www.osvdb.org/6624
http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5AP0P0UCUO.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10446
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16229
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16316

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