Amazon Linux 2023 : lemon, sqlite, sqlite-analyzer (ALAS2023-2024-490)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189327

Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-490 advisory.

A vulnerability was found in SQLite SQLite3 up to 3.43.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function sessionReadRecord of the file ext/session/sqlite3session.c of the component make alltest Handler. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-248999.

NOTE: https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/5bcbf4571cNOTE: Fixed by:
https://sqlite.org/src/info/0e4e7a05c4204b47 (CVE-2023-7104)

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

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

Solution

Run 'dnf update sqlite --releasever 2023.3.20240122' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-7104.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2024-490.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 189327

File Name: al2023_ALAS2023-2024-490.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/23/2024

Updated: 12/17/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-7104

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:lemon, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sqlite, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sqlite-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sqlite-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sqlite-doc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sqlite-tcl, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:lemon-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sqlite-analyzer, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sqlite-analyzer-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sqlite-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sqlite-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sqlite-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sqlite-tcl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sqlite-tools, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:sqlite-tools-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/19/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/29/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-7104

IAVA: 2024-A-0003