Ubuntu: USN-4450-1 (CVE-2020-15570): Whoopsie vulnerabilities
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
07/06/2020
08/07/2020
08/05/2020
03/22/2023
Description
The parse_report() function in whoopsie.c in Whoopsie through 0.2.69 mishandles memory allocation failures, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a malformed crash file.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-libwhoopsie0
- ubuntu-upgrade-whoopsie
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