CVE-2023-41038 - CVE House

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Status published High CVE-2023-41038

Server crash when using specific form of SET BIND statement

7.5 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

Firebird is a relational database. Versions 4.0.0 through 4.0.3 and version 5.0 beta1 are vulnerable to a server crash when a user uses a specific form of SET BIND statement. Any non-privileged user with minimum access to a server may type a statement with a long `CHAR` length, which causes the server to crash due to stack corruption. Versions 4.0.4.2981 and 5.0.0.117 contain fixes for this issue. No known workarounds are available.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

FirebirdSQL

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Affected Software

firebird

Vulnerable Versions:

>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.4.2981, >= 5.0 beta1, < 5.0.0.1176

Timeline

Official Publish: March 20th, 2024

Last Modified: August 13th, 2024

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service

T1498 Network Denial of Service

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1562 Impair Defenses

Defense Evasion

T1046 Network Service Discovery