News from the Firebird developers.
Firebird is prone to an integer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to ensure that integer values aren’t overrun. Attackers may exploit this issue to overflow a buffer and to corrupt process memory.
Attackers may be able to execute arbitrary machine code in the context of an affected application. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in a denial-of-service condition.
A bunch of major changes has just been committed into HEAD. This message
is intended to explain the details.
Jiri wrote on the mailing list
I have a great news for you. 🙂 I’ve got offer from Paul Beach to
continue with developement of NETProvider as lead and maintaining it
etc. I’ve accepted and I’ve got some privileges to do the “maintaining
work”. So the project isn’t dead. I hope we’ll kick-up the FB & .NET.
🙂
The JVCS team is happy to announce JEDI VCS 2.50 Beta 1, which is the first beta version of the second JVCS release.
This beta version targets experienced JEDI VCS users which are interested in branching functionality.
The following was sent to Charles Babcock at Information week in reply to an article entitled:
Open Source Code Contains Security Holes
As a developer and administrator of the Firebird Project I completely reject the statement you made in the above article.
“The somewhat moribund Firebird project, for example, is listed with 195 identified defects, of which it has verified zero and fixed zero. The active Firefox browser project, on the other hand,
has fixed 370 bugs, verified 56 and faces another 246 to verify and fix.”
I have just released a classic version of Firebird V2.03 for HPUX 11. This is a 64bit version for PA-RISC 2.0. The current install mechanism as per Firebird 1.5.x uses a tar file and scripts to install firebird into /opt/firebird etc. I think the time has now come to try and write a depot file so that we can use the HPUX installer to install firebird.
From Carlos Guzmán Álvarez:
I have decided to leave the project, the reason is mainly that i have left to do development in my spare time and really i’m going to continue in that situation for a long time, really, right now the last thing i want when i reach home is get coding again
I want to give great thanks to all of you for your help and support in all the time i was active in the development of the .NET provider 🙂
i would like to show you how hard the Core Developers are working (as if you don’t know that already …).
A little graph for you ….
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SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Maestro 7.12, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development. |
New version features SQL Generator tool, improved Data Grid and Database Designer, and some other useful things.
Full press-release is available here:
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/news/company/4718/
If anybody is interested in testing the following:
http://www.ibphoenix.com/downloads/firebirdCS-2.0.3-13023-i386.pkg.zip
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Regards
Paul Beach
