CVE-2026-28212 (GCVE-0-2026-28212)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-17 18:05 – Updated: 2026-04-17 18:10
VLAI?
Title
Firebird has potential server crash via null pointer dereference when processing op_slice packet
Summary
Firebird is an open-source relational database management system. In versions prior to 6.0.0, 5.0.4, 4.0.7 and 3.0.14, when processing an op_slice network packet, the server passes an unprepared structure containing a null pointer to the SDL_info() function, resulting in a null pointer dereference and server crash. An unauthenticated attacker can trigger this by sending a crafted packet to the server port. This issue has been fixed in versions 6.0.0, 5.0.4, 4.0.7 and 3.0.14.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CWE
- CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| FirebirdSQL | firebird |
Affected:
< 3.0.14
Affected: >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.7 Affected: >= 5.0.0, < 5.0.4 |
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Nomenclature
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