NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting sqlite3 package, versions <3.20.1-2


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.9% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-SQLITE3-11768553
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed12 Oct 2017

Introduced: 12 Oct 2017

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 sqlite3 to version 3.20.1-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sqlite3 package and not the sqlite3 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.