CVE-2016-1569

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-01-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

FireBird 2.5.5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by using service manager to invoke the gbak utility with an invalid parameter.

Affected products

FirebirdSQL firebird: 2.5.5

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177119.html
http://sourceforge.net/p/firebird/code/62783/
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-5068
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/3
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177119.html
http://sourceforge.net/p/firebird/code/62783/
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-5068
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/3

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