🛡️ CVE-2026-28212 on Debian — firebird3.0

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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Description

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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-28212 as tracked by Debian, for the package firebird3.0. The fix is available in version 3.0.14.ds7-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28212 is classified as CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference. A pointer that can be null is used without a check, crashing the process.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-28212 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • firebird3.0 (fixed in 3.0.14.ds7-1)
  • firebird4.0 (fixed in 4.0.7.3271.ds6-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 April 2026 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2026-28212 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-04-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
firebird3.0 — 3.0.14.ds7-1
firebird4.0 — 4.0.7.3271.ds6-1

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