Vulnerability in Oracle Solaris (CVE-2019-16168)
Summary
Vulnerability in Oracle Solaris (CVE-2019-16168). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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."
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-16168 has been found in Oracle Solaris.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Oracle Solaris CVE-2019-16168" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2019-16168 (Oracle Solaris) — CWE-369 / CVSS v3 6.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-369) exists in Oracle Solaris.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Oracle Solaris.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 6.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Solaris' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Solaris' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Solarisを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2019-16168 sqlite3 Fixed in: 3.11.0-1ubuntu1.3
References
- advisory security.netapp.com
- advisory security.netapp.com
- advisory usn.ubuntu.com
- web lists.opensuse.org
- web lists.opensuse.org
- web kc.mcafee.com
- web lists.debian.org
- web lists.fedoraproject.org
- web security.gentoo.org
- web mail-archive.com
- web oracle.com
- web oracle.com
- web sqlite.org
- web sqlite.org
- web tenable.com
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- web nvd.nist.gov
- web mail-archive.com
- web usn.ubuntu.com
- web security.netapp.com
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- web github.com
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