Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2203-1 sqlite3 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
05 May 2020
Affected Packages:
sqlite3
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-11655.
More information:

It was discovered that there was a denial of service attack in the SQLite database, often embedded into other programs and servers.

In the event of a semantic error in an aggregate query, SQLite did not return early from the "resetAccumulator()" function which would lead to a crash via a segmentation fault.

  • CVE-2020-11655

    SQLite through 3.31.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a malformed window-function query because the AggInfo object's initialization is mishandled.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 3.8.7.1-1+deb8u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your sqlite3 packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS