Magellan 2.0 flaws affect Google Chrome

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Researchers warn that five vulnerabilities in SQLite could enable remote code execution. The vulnerabilities, called Magellan 2.0 by the researchers who discovered them, exist in the SQLite database management system. SQLite is a lightweight, self-contained database engine used widely in browsers, operating systems and mobile phones. The vulnerabilities could be exploited remotely via a HTML page to launch malicious attacks allowing hackers to do anything from bypassing defense measures to obtaining sensitive information from process memory.

The flaw was reported to Google and SQLite on Nov. 16, 2019. On Dec. 11, 2019, Google released the a fixed version of Chrome, version 79.0.3945.79. Chrome/Chromium browsers prior to version 79.0.3945.79 with WebSQL enabled may be affected.


If you are using a software that uses SQLite as component without the latest patch, and it supports external SQL queries. You may also be affected if you are using Chrome that older than 79.0.3945.79 and it enabled WebSQL.