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>> Gentoo Security Update Fixes Firebird Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
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Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes Firebird Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1483
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1880
Rated as : High Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-05-13
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A vulnerability has been identified in Gentoo, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an error in the default configuration for Gentoo's init script ("/etc/conf.d/firebird") that sets the "ISC_PASSWORD" environment variable when starting Firebird, which could allow a remote attacker to authenticate as the "SYSDBA" user without providing the credentials, resulting in complete disclosure of all databases except for the user and password database (security2.fdb).
Affected Products
dev-db/firebird versions prior to 2.0.3.12981.0-r6
Solution
Upgrade the affected package :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=dev-db/firebird-2.0.3.12981.0-r6"
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1483
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-06.xml
ChangeLog
2008-05-13 : Initial release
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