CVE-2013-7443 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2013-7443?

CVE-2013-7443 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 12 Aug 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer overflow in the skip-scan optimization in SQLite 3.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted SQL statements.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-7443?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Sqlite Sqlite.

How do I fix CVE-2013-7443?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2013-7443 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-7443 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-7443, GHSA-9ggj-hfcr-7pgp, UBUNTU-CVE-2013-7443.