Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-2043

Title: Firebird Database buffer overflow DoS

DoS, Buffer Overflow

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2004-2043

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 01, 2004

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Available

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

47.46%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-2043: Buffer overflow in ibserver for Firebird Database 1.0 and other versions before 1.5, and possibly other products that use the InterBase codebase, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long database name, as demonstrated using the gsec command.

Impacted Vendors

borland_software 2

firebirdsql 1

firebird 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-06/0027.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108611386202493&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/11756 http://secunia.com/advisories/19350 http://securitytracker.com/id?1010381 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1014 http://www.osvdb.org/6408 http://www.osvdb.org/6624 http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5AP0P0UCUO.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10446 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16229 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16316 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-06/0027.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108611386202493&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/11756 http://secunia.com/advisories/19350 http://securitytracker.com/id?1010381 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1014 http://www.osvdb.org/6408 http://www.osvdb.org/6624 http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5AP0P0UCUO.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10446 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16229 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16316

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-2043 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/303

View Code

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24165

View Code

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 01, 2004 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.