CVE-2019-19645

Publication date 9 December 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

alter.c in SQLite through 3.30.1 allows attackers to trigger infinite recursion via certain types of self-referential views in conjunction with ALTER TABLE statements.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
sqlite	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
sqlite3	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Fixed 3.29.0-2ubuntu0.3
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored

Notes

mdeslaur

The code changes required to backport the fix for this issue to older versions of SQLite shipped in Ubuntu stable releases is subtantial and may introduce regressions. Due to the low severity of this issue, we will not be releasing a fix for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and earlier. Marking as ignored.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
sqlite3	Upstream: 3809696

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H