Vigil@nce - SQLite: out-of-bounds memory reading via FTS5 Transaction Prefix Queries
May 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, openSUSE Leap, SQLite, SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading, denial of service on service, denial
of service on client.
Provenance: user account.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 25/03/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a read at an invalid address via FTS5
Transaction Prefix Queries of SQLite, in order to trigger a denial
of service, or to obtain sensitive information.
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