CVE-2003-0281

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Summary

CVECVE-2003-0281
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2003-06-16 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionBuffer 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.6 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Firebirdsql Firebird 1.0.2 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Buffer Overflow in Firebird af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Firebird GDS_Inet_Server Interbase Environment Variable Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Secunia - Advisories - Firebird Environment Variable Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
'Firebird Local exploit' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
Bugtraq: Interbase 6.0 malloc() issues af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 seclists.org
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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