Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 18.10 / 19.04 : SQLite vulnerabilities (USN-4019-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 126065

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VPR Score: 6.7

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

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).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libsqlite3-0 and / or sqlite3 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4019-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 126065

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4019-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/20/2019

Updated: 9/17/2020

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

Risk Factor: High

VPR Score: 6.7

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsqlite3-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:sqlite3, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/19/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/26/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6153, CVE-2017-10989, CVE-2017-13685, CVE-2017-2518, CVE-2017-2519, CVE-2017-2520, CVE-2018-20346, CVE-2018-20505, CVE-2018-20506, CVE-2019-8457, CVE-2019-9936, CVE-2019-9937

USN: 4019-1