CVE-2026-28212 PUBLISHED

Firebird has potential server crash via null pointer dereference when processing op_slice packet

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 25.02.2026 Published: 17.04.2026 Updated: 17.04.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor FirebirdSQL
Product firebird
Versions
  • Version < 3.0.14 is affected
  • Version >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.7 is affected
  • Version >= 5.0.0, < 5.0.4 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference CWE