1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-4394-1

USN-4394-1: SQLite vulnerabilities

Publication date

10 June 2020

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in SQLite.

Releases

Packages

  • 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...

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

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
20.04 focal libsqlite3-0 –  3.31.1-4ubuntu0.1
sqlite3 –  3.31.1-4ubuntu0.1
19.10 eoan libsqlite3-0 –  3.29.0-2ubuntu0.3
sqlite3 –  3.29.0-2ubuntu0.3
18.04 bionic libsqlite3-0 –  3.22.0-1ubuntu0.4
sqlite3 –  3.22.0-1ubuntu0.4
16.04 xenial libsqlite3-0 –  3.11.0-1ubuntu1.5
sqlite3 –  3.11.0-1ubuntu1.5

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