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.

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

high Nessus Plugin ID 137353

Version 1.9

Version 1.8

Version 1.9 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
Version 1.8 Oct 21, 2023, 5:06 AM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Detection Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310210506