Firebird has a buffer overflow when parsing corrupted slice packets
Firebird is an open-source relational database management system. In versions prior to 5.0.4, 4.0.7 and 3.0.14, when deserializing a slice packet, the xdr_datum() function does not validate that a cstring length conforms to the slice descriptor bounds, allowing a cstring longer than the allocated buffer to overflow it.…
Severity high: primary CNA CVSS 7.5 v3.1 (worst CNA-provided scenario) Not listed in this KEV snapshot. Forecast present in this snapshot.
Published 2026-04-17T18:48:47.953Z. Updated 2026-04-17T19:21:17.132Z.