CVE-2020-11937

Resource exhaustion vulnerability in whoopsie

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Aug 6, 2020
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Apr 20, 2020

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	canonical

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
whoopsieCanonical	0.2.52 to before 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.5Affected 0.2.62 to before 0.2.62ubuntu0.5Affected 0.2.69 to before 0.2.69ubuntu0.1Affected

References

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