CVE-2026-119372

Name	CVE-2026-119372
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
sqlite3 (PTS)	bookworm	3.40.1-2+deb12u2	vulnerable
	trixie	3.46.1-7+deb13u2	vulnerable
	forky, sid	3.53.4-2	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
sqlite3	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

Notes

https://sqlite.org/bugs/info/2026-08-17T09:18:24Z
https://sqlite.org/src/info/e4635c4153
Fixed by: https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/commit/a87bd2471a9c0606e78d3c3678bcd9cecaa0e731 (version-3.54.0)