CVE-2007-3527

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-07-03 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

FirebirdSQL firebird: 2.0.0

References

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
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

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