One more reason to upgrade to Firebird 2.5.2 : CVE-2012-5529

News via oss-sec and [pkg-firebird-general] mailing list
A denial of service flaw was found in the way the TraceManager of
Firebird, performed preparation of an empty dynamic SQL query. When the trace mode was
enabled, a remote, authenticated database user could use this flaw
to cause the Firebird server to crash with a NULL pointer dereference.

References: [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693210
[2] http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-3884
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=876613

Relevant upstream patch: [4]
http://firebird.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/firebird?pathrev=54702&revision=54702&view=revision

Database Workbench 4.3.2 released

Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next
version of the popular multi-DBMS development tool:

Database Workbench 4.3.2 Pro

For more information, see here.

This version includes fixes for issues as reported by our users.

Previous changes include:

  • Stored Procedure, Function and Trigger Debugger for MySQL
  • Incremental search of data in SQL, Table & View Editor
  • Syntax check in Trigger Editor for Firebird & InterBase

And much more: click here for the full list of changes in v4.3.2

The free Lite Editions will be released later.

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– Borland InterBase (6.x – XE )
– Firebird ( 1.x, 2.x )
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– NexusDB ( 3.0 and up )

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FBClone 2.2.1 released – This is not only a bugfix version it can “normalize” a multi charset database

FBClone 2.2.1 is released to google code
This is more than a “bugfix release” for FBClone here are a few of new features and fixes:
-It Can “normalize” a multi charset database by ignoring all “character set” definitions from source db
See flags -ics -ko in combination with -tc UTF8.
-It supports domains in SP parameters as well as NOT NULL, TYPE OF and COLLATE.
-It’s changed creation order of UNIQUE/FOREIGN and VIEW TRG/TABLE TRG as suggested by users in issues.

You need to use it from command line and specify the source and target database
fbclone source employee.fdb target new_db.fdb user sysdba password *****
News via Pierre Yager tweet

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