USN-4394-1: SQLite vulnerabilities
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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