Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: Vulnerability and Fix??
Author Aage Johansen
PRoyston wrote:
> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> >
>>> ...
>> Fixed in 1.5.5. Did your exploit occur before or after upgrading to
> 1.5.5? Did you update the client library in all places?
>
> Yes, I double checked the fbclient.dll and the gds32.dll they are all
> up to date (1.5.5). This definitely happened after upgrading to 1.5.5
> (and before). In fact today we had it happen on a server which
> typically gets far less traffic. I am pretty sure it is an external
> source sending data because we are having it hit 2 servers with near
> identical IP addresses within seconds of each other. Typically it just
> causes our FB server to go dead and refuse connections and we have to
> reboot.
>

If this really wasn't fixed in 1.5.5 - I don't suppose there will be
a solution except moving to 2.x ?

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Aage J.