Sherief Hammad of NGSSoftware has discovered three high risk security vulnerabilities in Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5.2. Sybase ASE versions 12.5.2 and older are vulnerable to these issues. These vulnerabilities have now been fixed by Sybase in the Sybase ASE 12.5.3 interim release which can be downloaded from the sybase website: http://www.sybase.com/products/informationmanagement/adaptiveserverenterprise NGSSoftware are going to withhold details about these flaws for three months. Full details will be published on or after the 22nd of March 2005. This three month window will allow users of Sybase the time needed to download the updated version before the details are released to the general public. This reflects NGSSoftware's new approach to responsible disclosure. NGSSoftware Insight Security Research http://www.databasesecurity.com/ http://www.ngssoftware.com/ +44(0)208 401 0070