SB2018053119 - Fedora 27 update for sqlite

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SB2018053119 - Fedora 27 update for sqlite

Published: May 31, 2018 Updated: April 24, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2018053119
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-13685)

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the "dump_callback" function. A local user can submit malicious input and cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on a targeted system.


2) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15286)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in tableColumnList in shell.c because it fails to consider certain cases where `sqlite3_step(pStmt)==SQLITE_ROW` is false and a data structure is never initialized. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References