CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-11655

Improper Initialization

Published: Apr 09, 2020 | Modified: Apr 08, 2022
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
LOW

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

Weakness

The product does not initialize or incorrectly initializes a resource, which might leave the resource in an unexpected state when it is accessed or used.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Sqlite Sqlite * 3.31.1 (including)
Sqlite Ubuntu bionic *
Sqlite Ubuntu eoan *
Sqlite Ubuntu groovy *
Sqlite Ubuntu hirsute *
Sqlite Ubuntu impish *
Sqlite Ubuntu kinetic *
Sqlite Ubuntu trusty *
Sqlite Ubuntu xenial *
Sqlite3 Ubuntu eoan *
Sqlite3 Ubuntu focal *
Sqlite3 Ubuntu trusty *
Sqlite3 Ubuntu upstream *

Potential Mitigations

  • Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
  • For example, in Java, if the programmer does not explicitly initialize a variable, then the code could produce a compile-time error (if the variable is local) or automatically initialize the variable to the default value for the variable’s type. In Perl, if explicit initialization is not performed, then a default value of undef is assigned, which is interpreted as 0, false, or an equivalent value depending on the context in which the variable is accessed.

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