NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package sqlite3  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-SQLITE3-10078320
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed12 Oct 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-15286  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. 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.