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Ubuntu: USN-4052-1 (CVE-2019-11476): Whoopsie vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4052-1 (CVE-2019-11476): Whoopsie vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/09/2019
Created
07/10/2019
Added
07/10/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

An integer overflow in whoopsie before versions 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.1, 0.2.62ubuntu0.1, 0.2.64ubuntu0.1, 0.2.66, results in an out-of-bounds write to a heap allocated buffer when processing large crash dumps. This results in a crash or possible code-execution in the context of the whoopsie process.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libwhoopsie0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-whoopsie

References

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