fixed by P. Reeves

Partial fix for Windows Vista platform, whereby the Explorer crashes when the Firebird 1.5 control panel applet is installed. This crash does NOT occur with Firebird 2.n, but backporting the changes did not work. The installer now disables installation of the 1.5 applet if Vista is detected as the host operating system.

fixed by A. Peshkoff

Services Manager and gsec would truncate First/Middle/Last Name fields to 17 characters instead of the 31 characters defined for the field definitions.

Fix back-ported from Firebird 2.0.

fixed by A. Peshkoff

Supplying an empty Database Parameter Block (DPB) or Services Parameter Block (SPB) would crash the server.

fixed by A. Peshkoff, C. Valderrama

A number of vulnerabilities found and reported by RISE Security were closed.

Fixes back-ported from Firebird 2.0.3

fixed by C. Valderrama

Supplying a name of more than 127 characters for a secondary file would cause the server to crash.

Fix back-ported from Firebird 2.0.3

fixed by C. Valderrama

Querying for database info on a very long path through an API call to isc_database_info() could cause a buffer overrun.

fixed by P. Beach

QLI could cause a crash when processing the following statement:

fixed by P. Beach

An alignment issue could cause a core dump on HPUX when using SQL Dialect 1 and the following statement: