Resource exhaustion vulnerability in whoopsie
CVE-2020-11937

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Canonical
Status
Whoopsie
Vendor
CVE Published:
6 August 2020

Summary

In whoopsie, parse_report() from whoopsie.c allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted file. The DoS is caused by resource exhaustion due to a memory leak. Fixed in 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.5, 0.2.62ubuntu0.5 and 0.2.69ubuntu0.1.

Affected Version(s)

whoopsie 0.2.52 < 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.5

whoopsie 0.2.62 < 0.2.62ubuntu0.5

whoopsie 0.2.69 < 0.2.69ubuntu0.1

References

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1881982
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https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1
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https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Seong-Joong Kim
.