vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4450-1 (CVE-2020-11937): Whoopsie vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 4, 2020
Added
Aug 5, 2020
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libwhoopsie0ubuntu-upgrade-whoopsie
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