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FirebirdConfig 0.1.2.17 released

FirebirdConfig is free and provides you with a friendly user interface in order to configurate the firebird operation modifying the firebird.conf file with the most intuitive and functional graphic form                    

Firebird: Firebird News

Firebird ports for Intanium and hppa to be released soon

If you watch the debian building logs for different architectures then there are a few ones left to be done , Itanium , Hppa and Alpha (dead one) http://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0 and seem that this will be solved very soon

Firebird: Firebird News

firebird2.0 security bug is now fixed in debian/gentoo

There is an grave security bug in firebird package 2.0 from debian and ubuntu where an user can connect to the server with SYSDBA and NO password The bug is now fixed in debian sid (unstable) http://packages.debian.org/sid/firebird2.0-super and here is the changelog firebird2.0-super.init: stop exporting ISC_USER and ISC_PASSWORD. Fixes a hole causing remote connections as user SYSDBA to succeed without giving a [...]

Firebird: Firebird News

Firebird security bug fixed in gentoo linux

Firebird allows remote connections to the administrative account without verifying credentials. 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. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1880

Firebird: Firebird News

firebird2.0 package is now included in debian etch backports (stable)

firebird2.0 package is now included in debian etch backports (stable) http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/firebird2.0-super for using the etch stable backports read this reference firebird 2.0 package is also included in testing http://packages.debian.org/lenny/firebird2.0-super and unstable http://packages.debian.org/sid/firebird2.0-super

Firebird: Firebird News

Plastic SCM 1.5 is out!

We are very happy to announce the new Plastic SCM 1.5 release!

Firebird: Firebird News

Firebird “fbserver” Service Connect Request Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Vulnerability has been identified in Firebird, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the “fbserver.exe” service (port 3050/TCP) when processing a “connect” request (0×1) with a large “p_cnct_count” value, which could [...]

Firebird: Firebird News

DB Designer Fork 1.2 released

DB Designer Fork is a fork of the fabFORCE DBDesigner 4. DBDesigner is a visual database design system that integrates entity relationship design and database creation. DB Designer Fork generates SQL scripts for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and FireBird. Release focus: Initial freshmeat announcement

Firebird: Firebird News

DatabaseLayer 1.7.1 Released

DatabaseLayer is a wxCode library written to offer a JDBC-like API to database access. For a summary of the functionality offered by DatabaseLayer, visit http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/docs/databaselayer/summary.html. The main web page is located at http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/docs/databaselayer/. At this time, the supported database backends are SQLite, Firebird, PostgreSQL, MySQL, ODBC, Oracle (partial), and TDS (which includes MS SQL [...]

Firebird: Firebird News

Vuln: Firebird Remote Pre-Authentication Database Name Buffer Overrun Vulnerability

Old vulnerability surfaced up from the deep . If you have an old Firebird 1.5.x please upgrade to latest version ps: seems that securityfocus is updating their own vuln database so this is why it surfaced up again (the bug was squashed long long time ago)

Firebird: Firebird News

The Firebird 2 Quick Start Guide is now 100% ready

The Firebird 2 Quick Start Guide is now 100% ready, and available at this URL http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Firebird-2.0-QuickStart.pdf

Firebird: Firebird News

flamerobin 0.7.5 available in Gentoo

I[William L. Thomson Jr.] recently committed an ebuild for FlameRobin 0.7.5 into Gentoo’s portage repository. Should sync to mirrors in a few hours and users can then emerge flamerobin on Gentoo I have had an ebuild for FlameRobin since 0.4.8. I posted to the list long ago about it I believe. I became a dev a few months back, and [...]

Firebird: Firebird News

Morfik Announces Pricing, Including a FREE Version

Morfik is poised to be the first AJAX RAD/IDE tool developer to go 1.0. Morfik is a traditional graphical development environment that takes the code you write in Java, C#, BASIC and Pascal, attaches the Firebird SQL database and Apache web server, and converts your graphical forms and code into HTML/JavaScript You can digg it

Firebird: Firebird News

FirebirdClient (.net provider) v2.0.1 released

FirebirdClient v2.0.1, ADO.NET Data Provider for Microsoft .NET 2.0, and mono is available for download. Download information can be found here: http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider On this release there are two new binary packages for: * Mono 1.1.18+ * Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 – Carlos Guzmán Álvarez Vigo-Spain

Firebird: Firebird News

OpenOffice.org Base support in jaybird

In order to improve the situation we have created a separate driver that contains workarounds for the issues in OpenOffice.org Base. This driver will be part of Jaybird 2.2 release, but the snapshot releases already contain the required code.

Firebird: Firebird News

Turbo Delphi (Explorer) vs Turbo Lazarus

On the previous post, I talked about Turbo Delphi (Explorer), now I’m gonna talk a little bit about her cousin… Lazarus. Read more on the bee.ography blog [Ed: both can be used with firebird and OOpascal is the main language used with firebird - see previous pool results]

Firebird: Firebird News

Using the Firebird Data Layer with mojoportal

Software required :Firebird sql server 2.0 Release candidate 4 or higher, MojoPortal, Net 1.1 or higher. Read More on the MojoPortal’s documentation area

Firebird: Firebird News

mojoPortal 2.1.3 Released

See my previous blog post for release notes.New files are available from the download page. The next 1.x release will happen when the new Firebird Data Layer is ready, stay tuned for more information on that. You can read more about this release on the MojoPortal’s blog

Firebird: Firebird News

grails support for firebird

Grails GORM is based on the Hibernate object/relational mapping framework. Therefore Grails supports all Hibernate databases including Firebird ps: they have nice screencasts too

Firebird: Firebird News

Firebird Ported to gobolinux

Here is the active thread with the porting efforts . Gobolinux is an pretty interesting distro with new idea to packaging an application (the filesystem is the package manager)

Firebird: Firebird News

MojoPortal- Support for Firebird in SVN

In the near future we will have support for using Firebird Relational Database. Thanks to Gareth Goslett from South Africa who is the developer/maintainer of this new Data Layer. Read the full Good News about Mojo+Firebird

Firebird: Firebird News

Firebird,Flamerobin,KinterbasDB included in archlinux

Here are firebird package details , they have python-kinterbasdb+flamerobin included in the linux distro, If you don’t know what is archlinux therea are some reviews on the distrowatch.org

Firebird: Firebird News

MDB2_Schema is learning new tricks

Igor is doing great work on moving forward the XML based database schema format originally developed by Manuel Lemos as part of Metabase that is used in MDB2_Schema. [ED…skiped some content]The idea behind this schema format is to make it possible to define a single database schema that can be used to create, alter and [...]

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