Ubuntu 19.10 Security Advisory: SQLite Denial Of Service Risks

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December 2, 2019

Several security issues were fixed in SQLite.

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 schemas.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-8740)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain schemas.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 19.04.

(CVE-2019-16168)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain schemas.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to mishandles some expressions.

This issue only affected Ubuntu 19.04 and Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2019-19242)

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 19.04 and Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2019-19244)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service arbitrary code execution Ubuntu attack vector sqlite database engine

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.10:
  libsqlite3-0                    3.29.0-2ubuntu0.1
  sqlite3                         3.29.0-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 19.04:
  libsqlite3-0                    3.27.2-2ubuntu0.2
  sqlite3                         3.27.2-2ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libsqlite3-0                    3.22.0-1ubuntu0.2
  sqlite3                         3.22.0-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libsqlite3-0                    3.11.0-1ubuntu1.3
  sqlite3                         3.11.0-1ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM:
  libsqlite3-0                    3.7.9-2ubuntu1.4
  sqlite3                         3.7.9-2ubuntu1.4

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