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Ubuntu: USN-4170-1 (CVE-2019-11484): Whoopsie vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4170-1 (CVE-2019-11484): Whoopsie vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/30/2019
Created
03/05/2020
Added
10/31/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

Kevin Backhouse discovered an integer overflow in bson_ensure_space, as used in whoopsie.

Solution(s)

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

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