An authenticated remote attacker can execute arbitrary code in Firebird SQL Server versions 2.5.7 and 3.0.2 by executing a malformed SQL statement.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - firebird: Firebird fbudf Module Authenticated Remote Code Execution (CVE-2017-11509)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-2824 advisory.

  - An authenticated remote attacker can execute arbitrary code in Firebird SQL Server versions 2.5.7 and     3.0.2 by executing a malformed SQL statement. (CVE-2017-11509)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An issues has been found in firebird2.5, an RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0. As UDFs can be used for a remote authenticated code execution (as user firebird), UDFs have been disabled in the default configuration which will be used for new installations (there is no change for existing configurations, which must be done manually).

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.3.26778.ds4-5+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your firebird2.5 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An authenticated remote attacker can execute arbitrary code in Firebird SQL Server versions 2.5.7 and 3.0.2 by executing a malformed SQL statement. The only known solution is to disable external UDF libraries from being loaded. In order to achieve this, the default configuration has changed to UdfAccess=None. This will prevent the fbudf module from being loaded, but may also break other functionality relying on modules.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2.5.2.26540.ds4-1~deb7u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your firebird2.5 packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199812	RHEL 8 : firebird (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
196291	RHEL 8 : firebird (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
155658	Debian DLA-2824-1 : firebird3.0 - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
134180	Debian DLA-2129-1 : firebird2.5 security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
109734	Debian DLA-1374-1 : firebird2.5 security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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