CVE-2025-54989 (GCVE-0-2025-54989)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-15 15:04
Modified
2025-11-03 18:13
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Summary
Firebird is a relational database. Prior to versions 3.0.13, 4.0.6, and 5.0.3, there is an XDR message parsing NULL pointer dereference denial-of-service vulnerability in Firebird. This specific flaw exists within the parsing of xdr message from client. It leads to NULL pointer dereference and DoS. This issue has been patched in versions 3.0.13, 4.0.6, and 5.0.3.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
FirebirdSQL firebird Version: < 3.0.13
Version: < 4.0.6
Version: < 5.0.3
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