CVE-2004-2043: Borland Software Interbase

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 11.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in ibserver for Firebird Database 1.0 and other versions before 1.5, and possibly other products that use the InterBase codebase, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long database name, as demonstrated using the gsec command.

Affected products

• Borland Software Interbase: version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.4 only; version 6.5 only; version 7.0 only; …
• Borland Software Interbase Superserver: version 6.0 only
• Firebirdsql Firebird: version 1.0 only

Published 2004-05-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.