[Secure-testing-team] Bug#878680: sqlite3: CVE-2017-15286: NULL pointer dereference in tableColumnList

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: sqlite3
Version: 3.20.1-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for sqlite3.

CVE-2017-15286[0]:
| SQLite 3.20.1 has a NULL pointer dereference in tableColumnList in
| shell.c because it fails to consider certain cases where
| `sqlite3_step(pStmt)==SQLITE_ROW` is false and a data structure is
| never initialized.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15286
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15286
[1] https://github.com/Ha0Team/crash-of-sqlite3/blob/master/poc.md
[2] http://www.sqlite.org/src/info/5d0ceb8dcdef92cd

Attaching the poc.db.

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore