Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 19.04 / 19.10 : sqlite3 vulnerabilities (USN-4205-1)
Medium Nessus Plugin ID 131561
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
Description
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)
It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain SQL commands. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 19.04. (CVE-2019-5018)
It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain commands. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2019-5827).
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.