Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 6, 2020· Updated Sep 17, 2024
Resource exhaustion vulnerability in whoopsie
CVE-2020-11937
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.
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Affected products
2- Canonical/whoopsiev5Range: 0.2.52
Patches
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References
3- usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1/mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
- launchpad.net/bugs/1881982mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
- usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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