sqlite3 vulnerabilities

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-8740   CVE-2019-19603   CVE-2019-19645   CVE-2020-11655   CVE-2020-13434   CVE-2020-13435   CVE-2020-13630   CVE-2020-13631   CVE-2020-13632  

Several security issues were fixed in SQLite.

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain corruped schemas. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-8740)

10 June 2020

sqlite3 vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 19.10
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in SQLite.

Software Description

  • sqlite3 - C library that implements an SQL database engine

Details

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain corruped schemas. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-8740)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain SELECT statements. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2019-19603)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain self-referential views. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2019-19645)

Henry Liu discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain malformed window-function queries. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-11655)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain string operations. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-13434)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain expressions. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-13435)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain fts3 queries. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-13630)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain virtual table names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-13631)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain fts3 queries. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-13632)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
libsqlite3-0 - 3.31.1-4ubuntu0.1
sqlite3 - 3.31.1-4ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 19.10
libsqlite3-0 - 3.29.0-2ubuntu0.3
sqlite3 - 3.29.0-2ubuntu0.3
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
libsqlite3-0 - 3.22.0-1ubuntu0.4
sqlite3 - 3.22.0-1ubuntu0.4
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
libsqlite3-0 - 3.11.0-1ubuntu1.5
sqlite3 - 3.11.0-1ubuntu1.5

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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