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Magellan RCE flaw in SQLite potentially affects billions of apps

December 15, 2018  By Pierluigi Paganini

 

Security experts at Tencent’s Blade security team discovered the Magellan RCE flaw in SQLite database software that exposes billions of vulnerable apps.

 

Security experts at Tencent’s Blade security team have discovered a critical vulnerability in SQLite database software that exposes billions of vulnerable apps to hackers.

 

The vulnerability tracked as ‘Magellan‘ could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary on vulnerable devices, leak program memory or cause dos condition with application crash.

 

“Magellan is a remote code execution vulnerability discovered by Tencent Blade Team that exists in SQLite. As a well-known database, SQLite is widely used in all modern mainstream operating systems and software, so this vulnerability has a wide range of influence. ” reads a blog post published by the Tencent Blade Team.

 

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