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Fedora 22: FEDORA-2015-6157 Critical: SQLite Memory Issues

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Calendar Grey April 23, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Security announcement for Fedora 22: sqlite upgrade resolves memory vulnerabilities, buffer overflow risks, and improper free alterations.
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.

Change Log

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 22
Version: 3.8.9
Release: 1.fc22
Summary: Library that implements an embeddable SQL database engine

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