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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : SQLite vulnerabilities (USN-7679-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 243224

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7679-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled aggregate terms. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
 (CVE-2025-6965)

 It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain argument values to sqlite3_db_config(). An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This update fixes the issue in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This issue was previously fixed in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS via USN-7528-1. (CVE-2025-29088)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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-7679-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 243224

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7679-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/31/2025

Updated: 7/31/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.4

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-2025-6965

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Threat Score: 4.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:L/SC:L/SI:H/SA:L

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsqlite3-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:sqlite3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:lemon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsqlite3-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsqlite3-tcl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-29088, CVE-2025-6965

IAVA: 2025-A-0288-S, 2025-A-0529

USN: 7679-1