CVE-2015-3414 Denial of service in n/a

High 7.5 Published Updated

Attackers can cause a denial of service via a crafted COLLATE clause in SQLite, leading to application crashes due to uninitialized memory access.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
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Attackable
Not stated
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2015-3414?

CVE-2015-3414 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 24 Apr 2015.

Official description

SQLite before 3.8.9 does not properly implement the dequoting of collation-sequence names, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted COLLATE clause, as demonstrated by COLLATE"""""""" at the end of a SELECT statement.

Weakness: CWE-908

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-3414?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Apple Watchos, Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Php Php, Sqlite Sqlite.

How do I fix CVE-2015-3414?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-3414 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-3414 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Apple Mac Os X vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3414, GHSA-9qxq-827h-4w5v, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3414.

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