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CVE-2015-3416

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

The sqlite3VXPrintf function in printf.c in SQLite before 3.8.9 does not properly handle precision and width values during floating-point conversions, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow and stack-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via large integers in a crafted printf function call in a SELECT statement.

Affected products

• macOS: through 10.6.8
• Apple watchOS: through 1.0.1
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• PHP: from 5.4.0 before 5.4.42; from 5.5.0 before 5.5.26; from 5.6.0 before 5.6.10 — fixed in 5.4.42, 5.5.26, 5.6.10
• SQLite: through 3.8.8.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PHP 5.4.42, 5.5.26, 5.6.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00005.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1634.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1635.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/31
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3252
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:217
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74228
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033703
• http://www.sqlite.org/src/info/c494171f77dc2e5e04cb6d865e688448f04e5920

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