{"id":6082,"date":"2018-12-16T21:06:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T02:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/?p=6082"},"modified":"2018-12-16T21:06:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T02:06:30","slug":"critical-sqlite-flaw-leaves-millions-of-apps-vulnerable-to-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/2018\/12\/16\/critical-sqlite-flaw-leaves-millions-of-apps-vulnerable-to-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical SQLite Flaw Leaves Millions of Apps Vulnerable to Hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in widely used SQLite database software that exposes billions of deployments to hackers.<br \/>\nDubbed as &#8216;<b>Magellan<\/b>&#8216; by Tencent&#8217;s Blade security team, the newly discovered SQLite flaw could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary or malicious code on affected devices, leak program memory or crash applications.<\/p>\n<p>Since Chromium-based web browsers\u2014including Google Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, and Brave\u2014also support SQLite through the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/web\/tools\/lighthouse\/audits\/web-sql\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deprecated<\/a>\u00a0Web SQL database API, a remote attacker can easily target users of affected browsers just by convincing them into visiting a specially crafted web-page.<\/p>\n<p>Since SQLite is used by everybody including Adobe, Apple, Dropbox, Firefox, Android, Chrome, Microsoft and a bunch of other software, the Magellan vulnerability is a noteworthy issue, even if it&#8217;s not yet been exploited in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>Users and administrators are highly recommended to update their systems and affected software versions to the latest release as soon as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2018\/12\/sqlite-vulnerability.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2018\/12\/sqlite-vulnerability.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in widely used SQLite database software that exposes billions of deployments to hackers. Dubbed as &#8216;Magellan&#8216; by Tencent&#8217;s Blade security team, the newly discovered SQLite flaw could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary or malicious code on affected devices, leak program memory or crash applications. Since Chromium-based web [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[684819],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-14-maturity-models","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6083,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions\/6083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}