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CVE-2019-16168

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-09-09 · updated 2026-10-14
• Weakness: CWE-369

Description

In SQLite through 3.29.0, whereLoopAddBtreeIndex in sqlite3.c can crash a browser or other application because of missing validation of a sqlite_stat1 sz field, aka a "severe division by zero in the query planner."

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 19.10
• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 30
• McAfee,LLC McAfee Policy Auditor: before 6.5.1 — fixed in 6.5.1
• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: from 7.3; from 9.5
• E-Series SANtricity OS Controller Software 11.x: from 11.0.0 through 11.60.3
• OnCommand Insight: all versions
• NetApp OnCommand Workflow Automation: all versions
• NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility: all versions
• NetApp Santricity Unified Manager: all versions
• NetApp Steelstore Cloud Integrated Storage: all versions
• Oracle Communications Design Studio: 7.3.4.3.0, 7.3.5.5.0, 7.4.0.4.0
• Oracle Java SE: 1.8.0-update231
• Oracle Java SE: 1.8.0-update231
• MySQL Server: from 8.0.0 through 8.0.18
• Oracle Corporation Outside In Technology: 8.5.4
• Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11
• Oracle Zfs Storage Appliance: 8.8
• SQLite: from 3.8.5 through 3.29.0
• Tenable Agent: through 8.2.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: McAfee,LLC McAfee Policy Auditor 6.5.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00032.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00033.html
• https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10365
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00037.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XZARJHJJDBHI7CE5PZEBXS5HKK6HXKW2/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-16
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190926-0003/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200122-0003/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4205-1/
• https://www.mail-archive.com/sqlite-users%40mailinglists.sqlite.org/msg116312.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html

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