Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird Interbase Database engine hacks or rtfm

2014-01-08 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
Hello Alex, ... skipped ... A> I.e. on my mind the presentation is about nothing. The presentation is about "If you have armed gun - you can shut your leg" :) I think, the main message idea from Marius is about default security - i.e. by default FB after installation should not allow _unprivile

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird Interbase Database engine hacks or rtfm

2014-01-08 Thread Sergey Mereutsa
Hello Alex, A> But all samples provided _do_ require privileged user (sysdba or root) - A> may be except A> CREATE DATABASE ':'; A> Currently everyone can create new DB and become it's DBO. A> That's what will be changed in fb3 before beta1. It is true only if server itself has access to the thi

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird Interbase Database engine hacks or rtfm

2014-01-08 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
08.01.2014 16:44, Mark Rotteveel wrote: > He simply demonstrates that once you 'own' a Firebird server, you can use > that to further exploit/hack into a server. Perhaps, it is time to change default for DatabaseAccess parameter... -- WBR, SD. -

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird Interbase Database engine hacks or rtfm

2014-01-08 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 19:41:16 +0400, Alex wrote: > On 01/08/2014 07:22 PM, Sergey Mereutsa wrote: >> Hello Alex, >> >> ... skipped ... >> >> A> I.e. on my mind the presentation is about nothing. >> >> The presentation is about "If you have armed gun - you can shut your >> leg" :) >> >> I think, the

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird Interbase Database engine hacks or rtfm

2014-01-08 Thread Alex
On 01/08/2014 07:34 PM, Mark Rotteveel wrote: > On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 19:13:02 +0400, Alex wrote: >> On 01/07/2014 01:11 PM, marius adrian popa wrote: >>> Notes on database security assesment >>> > http://www.slideshare.net/qqlan/firebird-interbase-database-engine-hacks-or-rtfm >> I see 2 kinds of s

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird Interbase Database engine hacks or rtfm

2014-01-08 Thread Alex
On 01/08/2014 07:22 PM, Sergey Mereutsa wrote: > Hello Alex, > > ... skipped ... > > A> I.e. on my mind the presentation is about nothing. > > The presentation is about "If you have armed gun - you can shut your > leg" :) > > I think, the main message idea from Marius is about default security - >

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird Interbase Database engine hacks or rtfm

2014-01-08 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 19:13:02 +0400, Alex wrote: > On 01/07/2014 01:11 PM, marius adrian popa wrote: >> Notes on database security assesment >> http://www.slideshare.net/qqlan/firebird-interbase-database-engine-hacks-or-rtfm >> > > I see 2 kinds of samples - mixed DDL/DML statements and use of UDF

Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird Interbase Database engine hacks or rtfm

2014-01-08 Thread Alex
On 01/07/2014 01:11 PM, marius adrian popa wrote: > Notes on database security assesment > http://www.slideshare.net/qqlan/firebird-interbase-database-engine-hacks-or-rtfm > I see 2 kinds of samples - mixed DDL/DML statements and use of UDF. It's well known and documented (can't provide a link bu

[Firebird-devel] Firebird Interbase Database engine hacks or rtfm

2014-01-07 Thread marius adrian popa
Notes on database security assesment http://www.slideshare.net/qqlan/firebird-interbase-database-engine-hacks-or-rtfm -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a c