CVE-2019-20218 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-20218?

CVE-2019-20218 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 2 Jan 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

selectExpander in select.c in SQLite 3.30.1 proceeds with WITH stack unwinding even after a parsing error.

Weakness: CWE-755

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-20218?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Oracle Mysql Workbench, Sqlite Sqlite.

How do I fix CVE-2019-20218?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2019-20218 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-20218 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-2019-20218, DLA-2340-2, GHSA-vrgp-3vgj-937c, SUSE-SU-2021:14771-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-20218.