CVE-2015-3414 Denial of service in n/a
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
- Not needed
- 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.
Other vulnerabilities in Apple Mac Os X
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3414, GHSA-9qxq-827h-4w5v, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3414.