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Fedora 21: Security Advisory for Sqlite Update - Critical Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey April 22, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notif
Update of sqlite to latest upstream version, with spatialite-tools rebuild.

Summary

SQLite is a C library that implements an SQL database engine. A large

subset of SQL92 is supported. A complete database is stored in a

single disk file. The API is designed for convenience and ease of use.

Applications that link against SQLite can enjoy the power and

flexibility of an SQL database without the administrative hassles of

supporting a separate database server. Version 2 and version 3 binaries

are named to permit each to be installed on a single host

Update Information:

Update of sqlite to latest upstream version, with spatialite-tools rebuild.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update buffer overflow Fedora sqlite uninitialized memory invalid free

Change Log

* Tue Apr 14 2015 Jan Stanek - 3.8.9-1 - Updated to version 3.8.9 (https://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_8_9.html) * Thu Feb 26 2015 Jan Stanek - 3.8.8.3-1 - Updated to version 3.8.8.3 (https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_8_8_3.html) * Sat Feb 21 2015 Till Maas - 3.8.8-3 - Rebuilt for Fedora 23 Change https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_all_packages_with_position-independent_code * Tue Feb 3 2015 Jan Stanek - 3.8.8-2 - Fixed out-of-date source URLs (rhbz#1188092) * Tue Jan 20 2015 Jan Stanek - 3.8.8-1 - Updated to version 3.8.8 (https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_8_8.html) - Recreated patches to work on current version. * Fri Dec 12 2014 Jan Stanek - 3.8.7.4-1 - Updated to version 3.8.7.4 () * Tue Nov 25 2014 Jan Stanek - 3.8.7.2-1 - Updated to version 3.8.7.2 (http://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_8_7_2.html)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1212353 - sqlite: use of uninitialized memory when parsing collation sequences in src/where.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212353 [ 2 ] Bug #1212356 - sqlite: invalid free() in src/vdbe.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212356 [ 3 ] Bug #1212357 - sqlite: stack buffer overflow in src/printf.c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212357

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update sqlite' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: sqlite
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 3.8.9
Release: 1.fc21
URL: https://www.sqlite.org/index.html
Summary: Library that implements an embeddable SQL database engine

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Topics Covered

security advisory update buffer overflow Fedora sqlite uninitialized memory invalid free

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