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Borland InterBase Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA27058
Release Date: 2007-10-05
Last Update: 2007-10-08
Popularity: 4,540 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Borland InterBase 2007
Borland Interbase 5.x
Borland Interbase 6.x
Borland Interbase 7.x

Binary Analysis: BA244 :: Available for 1 Credit
BA241 :: Available for 1 Credit

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-5243
CVE-2007-5244


Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Borland InterBase, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors in various functions and can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows via specially crafted parameters passed to the affected functions.

The following functions are reportedly affected:
* INET_connect
* SVC_attach
* isc_attach_database
* jrd8_attach_database
* isc_create_database
* jrd8_create_database
* PWD_db_aliased
* expand_filename2
* open_marker_file (UNIX only)

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities are reported in the following versions of Borland InterBase. Other versions may also be affected.
* WI-V8.1.0.257
* WI-V8.0.0.123
* WI-V7.5.1.80
* WI-V7.5.0.129
* WI-V7.0.1.1
* WI-V6.5.0.28
* WI-V6.0.1.6
* WI-O6.0.2.0
* WI-O6.0.1.6
* WI-V6.0.1.0
* WI-V6.0.0.627
* WI-V5.5.0.742
* WI-V5.1.1.680
* LI-V8.1.0.253
* LI-V8.0.0.54
* LI-V8.0.0.53

Solution:
Restrict access to affected systems.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Adriano Lima and Ramon de Carvalho Valle, RISE Security.

Changelog:
2007-10-08: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://risesecurity.org/advisory/RISE-2007002/


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