1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-4019-1

USN-4019-1: SQLite vulnerabilities

Publication date

19 June 2019

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 SQL files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code
or cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04
LTS. (CVE-2017-2518, CVE-2017-2520)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain queries.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.10. (CVE-2018-20505)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain queries.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 18.10. (CVE-2018-20346, CVE-2018-20506)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly...

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain SQL files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code
or cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04
LTS. (CVE-2017-2518, CVE-2017-2520)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain queries.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.10. (CVE-2018-20505)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain queries.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 18.10. (CVE-2018-20346, CVE-2018-20506)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information.
(CVE-2019-8457)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain queries.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.10.
(CVE-2019-9936)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
and Ubuntu 18.10. (CVE-2019-9937)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-6153)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain databases.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-10989)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-13685)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain queries.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or
cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2017-2519)

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
19.04 disco libsqlite3-0 –  3.27.2-2ubuntu0.1
sqlite3 –  3.27.2-2ubuntu0.1
18.10 cosmic libsqlite3-0 –  3.24.0-1ubuntu0.1
sqlite3 –  3.24.0-1ubuntu0.1
18.04 bionic libsqlite3-0 –  3.22.0-1ubuntu0.1
sqlite3 –  3.22.0-1ubuntu0.1
16.04 xenial libsqlite3-0 –  3.11.0-1ubuntu1.2
sqlite3 –  3.11.0-1ubuntu1.2

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