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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : SQLite vulnerabilities (USN-5615-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 165204

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5615-1 advisory.

 - In SQlite 3.31.1, a potential null pointer derreference was found in the INTERSEC query processing.
 (CVE-2020-35525)

 - In SQLite 3.31.1, there is an out of bounds access problem through ALTER TABLE for views that have a nested FROM clause. (CVE-2020-35527)

 - An issue was found in fts5UnicodeTokenize() in ext/fts5/fts5_tokenize.c in Sqlite. A unicode61 tokenizer configured to treat unicode control-characters (class Cc), was treating embedded nul characters as tokens. The issue was fixed in sqlite-3.34.0 and later. (CVE-2021-20223)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5615-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 165204

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5615-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/15/2022

Updated: 10/16/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-35527

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

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: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lemon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsqlite3-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsqlite3-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsqlite3-tcl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:sqlite3

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-35525, CVE-2020-35527

USN: 5615-1