CVE-2008-1880

Publication date

2008-05-12 16:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The default configuration of Firebird before 2.0.3.12981.0-r6 on Gentoo Linux sets the ISC_PASSWORD environment variable before starting Firebird, which allows remote attackers to bypass SYSDBA authentication and obtain sensitive database information via an empty password.