Firebird remote BOF POC

Firebird Remove Buffer Overflow Proof of concept was posted on BugTraq

The bug is the one fixed in the next stable releases and is not present in firebird 2.1 rc1& rc2 here is the description:

Integer overflow in Firebird SQL 1.0.3 and earlier, 1.5.x before 1.5.6, 2.0.x before 2.0.4, and 2.1.x before 2.1.0 RC1 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code

ibwebadmin 1.0.2 added to ubuntu ppa repository

here are the instructions for installing ibwebadmin 1.0.2 package on (latest development branch of ubuntu)

RAID 10 performance tradeoffs and firebird

I have been configuring a fair number of Linux database servers for a line-of-business application; it runs the Firebird SQL database in server mode only (no application code at all – just DB).

All of these are the wonderful Dell PowerEdge 2950 units with the PERC6i RAID controller, and my typical configuration is 6x 146G 15k SAS drives. These are the highest-performance, highest capacity solution in 3.5″ drives.

Generic Database Output Module for rsyslog

An introductory article about using the new Generic Database Output Module

This modules supports a large number of database systems via libdbi. Libdbi abstracts the database layer and provides drivers for many systems. Drivers are available via the libdbi-drivers project. As of this writing, the following drivers are available:

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