Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in various Borland products, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in the Borland Database Engine (BDE) library (idsql32.dll) when processing an overly long argument passed to a "DbiQExec()" function, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands via a specially crafted SQL statement.

Affected Products

Borland C# Builder 2006
Borland C++ Builder 2006
Borland C++ Builder versions 5.x
Borland C++Builder versions 6.x
Borland Delphi 2006
Borland Delphi versions 5.x
Borland Delphi versions 6.x
Borland Delphi versions 7.x

Solution

VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4763
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-70/advisory

Credits

Vulnerability reported by JJ Reyes (Secunia Research)

ChangeLog

2006-11-29 : Initial release

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