Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: USN-4394-1 Critical: SQLite Denial Of Service

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June 10, 2020

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 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 ...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service sqlite Ubuntu 16.04 Ubuntu 20.04 Ubuntu 18.04 Ubuntu 19.10

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  libsqlite3-0                    3.31.1-4ubuntu0.1
  sqlite3                         3.31.1-4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 19.10:
  libsqlite3-0                    3.29.0-2ubuntu0.3
  sqlite3                         3.29.0-2ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libsqlite3-0                    3.22.0-1ubuntu0.4
  sqlite3                         3.22.0-1ubuntu0.4

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libsqlite3-0                    3.11.0-1ubuntu1.5
  sqlite3                         3.11.0-1ubuntu1.5

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