This update, for IB 6.5 and 7.1 on Windows and Linux, corrects a potential security issue that was identified in Borland Quality Central submission 8498.
Update: I have received some more detailed information about this update which I’d like to pass along. As I suspected, QC submission 8498 was a Linux-only bug, so I wondered what the Windows update did. Turns out it’s a fix for QC submission 7389, so the appelation "Security Update" is slightly misleading. This is an important fix, however.
The update also corrects a bug in a feature which very few people are even aware of. InterBase allows you to use one InterBase server as an intermediate between a client and another InterBase server by specifying both servers in the connect string, i.e.:
foo:bar:c:\DatabaseFoo.ib
This means "connect to the bar server via the foo server and open the c:\DatabaseFoo.ib database on bar." I’m not entirely certain what the use of this so-called "hop protocol" is, and certainly had never noticed that it was broken. But it’s fixed now.
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