HQbird: Advanced FirebirdSQL

IBSurgeon HQbird is an advanced distribution of Firebird for enterprises, with the following list of features: 100% Firebird engine, optimized configurations, high availability and replication, backups automation, database health monitoring, transactions and queries monitoring (TraceAPI, MON$ and FBScanner), database structure analysis, recovery toolset and database development GUI.
 

Firebird Performance Optimization

IBSurgeon offers Firebird Performance Optimization service to increase the performance of your Firebird database and application. We will optimize the configuration of Firebird server and database, tune settings of hardware, virtual environments and operation systems, speed up your SQL queries with indices and tweaks, and improve database structure and transactions management.
From $599

Emergency database recovery

To recover corrupted Firebird (or InterBase) databases (with size less than 65Gb) you can use IBSurgeon FirstAID - the best recovery tool for Firebird and InterBase. FirstAID can  automatically fix the vast majority of Firebird database corruption. For databases more than 65Gb in size please contact our support, most like they will require manual recovery service.
From $199

Latest Posts

Firebird security alert: 0-day vulnerability in old versions

Firebird Project has discovered critical security issues in old versions of all supported releases: if your version is equal or less than specified versions (with build number) 3.0.13.33809, 4.0.6.3203, 5.0.3.1651, you need to upgrade to the latest Firebird releases (3.0.13.33818, 4.0.6.3221, 5.0.3.1683).

Zero day vulnerability was found in all versions of Firebird with versions less than 3.0.13.33809, 4.0.6.3203, 5.0.3.1651 (it means that current releases on www.firebirdsql.org have it fixed).
Malicious user can cause DoS on firebird server sending specific sequence of bytes, login/password for server is not needed. To expoit the vulnerability, it is enough to send set of bytes to Firebird port, so recommendation is upgrade as soon as possible.

Special note for users of vanilla 2.5 - version 2.5 also suffers from this problem, but since it is not supported by Firebird Project, there will be no fix, so you need to upgrade as soon as possible, or you should consider to use HQbird, which supports 2.5. 

For users of HQbird - the recent update HQbird 2024R2 Update 5 (https://ib-aid.com/en/download-hqbird) has all fixes for 5.0, 4.0, 3.0, but for 2.5 IBSurgeon will issue special fix as soon as possible. If you are using HQbird older than Update 5 - upgrade as soon as possible.

What to do

  1. Check version of your Firebird: for this run in command line some tool from your installation, for example, gstat.exe -z and check the full version. On Windows you can also do right-click on firebird.exe and see tab "Details".
  2. If you are not running the latest version - i.e., equal or higher than 3.0.13.33818, 4.0.6.3221, 5.0.3.1683, you are safe. If it is less - plan upgrade to the latest Firebird.
  3. If you are usng non-safe version, make sure that port 3050 is available only for trusted clients connections. Plan upgrade asap.
Do you need help? Contact [email protected] with any questions.
 

08 Августа 2025

Firebird security alert: 0-day vulnerability in old versions

Firebird Project has discovered critical security issues in old versions of all supported releases: if your version is equal or less than specified versions (with build number) 3.0.13.33809, 4.0.6.3203, 5.0.3.1651, you need to upgrade to the latest Firebird releases (3.0.13.33818, 4.0.6.3221, 5.0.3.1683).

12 Мая 2025

IBSurgeon FirstAID 8.0: now with Firebird 5.0 support

IBSurgeon FirstAID 8.0: now with support of Firebird 5.

20 Марта 2025

BLOB revolution in new HQbird 2024 R2 Update 2

BLOB revolution in new HQbird 2024 R2 Update 2

22 Октября 2024

New version of HQbird 2024 R2

HQbird 2024 R2 introduces support for many databases on the same server

29 Августа 2024

Free book "Detailed features of Firebird 5" is published

Free book "Detailed features of Firebird 5" is published. 119 pages of essential information about Firebird 5.

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