UBUNTU-CVE-2026-119372
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Summary:
Details: SQLite before 3.54.0 built with FTS3/FTS4 and SQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3_PARENTHESIS contains a use-after-free vulnerability in fts3BestSnippet() caused by dangling cached position-list pointers. Attackers can run a full-text MATCH query combining OR and NEAR operators with snippet() to read freed heap memory and crash the process.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-119372, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-119372, https://sqlite.org/bugs/info/2026-08-17T09:18:24Z, https://sqlite.org/src/info/e4635c4153, https://abraxaslabs.tech/research/sqlite-fts3-snippet, https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite, https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/version-3.53.4/ext/fts3/fts3_snippet.c#L561, https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/commit/a87bd2471a9c0606e78d3c3678bcd9cecaa0e731, https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_54_0.html, https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sqlite-before-3.54.0-use-after-free-in-fts3-fts3bestsnippet-via-snippet
Affected packages
Package
Name: sqlite
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/sqlite?arch=source&distro=trusty
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
