Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 13, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-1569

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.

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Affected products

Firebirdsql/Firebird
cpe:2.3:a:firebirdsql:firebird:2.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

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References

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

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