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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : SQLite vulnerabilities (USN-4394-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 137353

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4394-1 advisory.

 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 Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-11655)

 It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain string operations. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
 (CVE-2020-13434)

 It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain expressions. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-13435)

 It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain fts3 queries. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
 (CVE-2020-13630)

 It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain virtual table names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-13631)

 It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain fts3 queries. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
 (CVE-2020-13632)

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-4394-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 137353

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4394-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/11/2020

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-13630

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/17/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-8740, CVE-2019-19603, CVE-2019-19645, CVE-2020-11655, CVE-2020-13434, CVE-2020-13435, CVE-2020-13630, CVE-2020-13631, CVE-2020-13632

IAVA: 2020-A-0358-S

USN: 4394-1