Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in SQLite affects IBM Cloud Application Performance Management Response Time Monitoring Agent (CVE-2019-19959, CVE-2019-20218)

Summary

SQLite is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the mishandling of certain uses of INSERT INTO in situations involving embedded ‘\0’ characters in filenames. By using a specially-crafted filename, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-19959
**DESCRIPTION:**SQLite is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the mishandling of certain uses of INSERT INTO in situations involving embedded ‘\0’ characters in filenames. By using a specially-crafted filename, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/174011 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2019-20218
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified error in selectExpander in select.c in SQLite has an unknown impact and attack vector.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/173900 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

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Workarounds and Mitigations

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