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USN-5615-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2020-35525)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2022-09-15 16:53 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:37 – Source website
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Summary
sqlite3 vulnerabilities
Details

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled INTERSEC query processing. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-35525)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled ALTER TABLE for views that have a nested FROM clause. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-35527)

It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled embedded null characters when tokenizing certain unicode strings. This issue could result in incorrect results. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-20223)

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