Vigil@nce - SQLite: NULL pointer dereference via FTS5 Transaction Interleaving Read
April 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
– Impacted products: SQLite.
– Severity: 1/4.
– Consequences: 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 NULL pointer to be dereferenced via FTS5
Transaction Interleaving Read of SQLite, in order to trigger a
denial of service.
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