Ubuntu: USN-4450-1 (CVE-2020-11937): Whoopsie vulnerabilities
2
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
08/04/2020
08/07/2020
08/05/2020
03/22/2023
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.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-libwhoopsie0
- ubuntu-upgrade-whoopsie
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