Firebird: Buffer overflow and the patch for gentoo
A vulnerability has been discovered in Firebird, allowing for the
execution of arbitrary code.
A vulnerability has been discovered in Firebird, allowing for the
execution of arbitrary code.
We are very happy to announce the new Plastic SCM 1.5 release!
FirebirdClient v2.5.0 Alpha 1, ADO.NET Data Provider for Microsoft .NET
2.0, and mono is available for download.
Here is the page for voting firebird http://sourceforge.net/community/index.php/landing-pages/cca07/
News via phoronix.com
One of the most important recent developments in the open source world is the rise of integrated open source enterprise stacks. Many run on Windows, too, so they offer the Microsoft IT community a range of interesting — and free — alternatives to traditional solutions.
[ED: no wonder that InfoWorld is covering a survey of North American developers that claims that Linux is gaining share as the number of developers targeting Windows fell 11 percent over the last year]
Well, it’s official – we’ve told our sponsors we won’t be participating in the rallye this year. There’s a news items up at our team website about it.
Paul Reeves guide for running two or more versions of Firebird server in the same machine is now available here.
“Firebird does not currently support running multiple instances as Windows services. This fetaure will come with V2.1. However, secondary instances may be run as applications. Here is how to proceed…”
The Firebird team is pleased to announce that the first Beta builds of
Firebird V.2.1 are ready for testing. Binary and source kits should
start appearing at the Sourceforge mirrors today.
Download links for all the released kits can be found here:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=fb210_beta01
Release Notes are here:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/devel/doc/rlsnotes/html/rlsnotes21.html
Dmitry