CVE-2020-11937 (GCVE-0-2020-11937)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-08-06 22:50
Modified
2024-09-17 04:15
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Summary
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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Vendor Product Version
Canonical whoopsie Version: 0.2.52   < 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.5
Version: 0.2.62   < 0.2.62ubuntu0.5
Version: 0.2.69   < 0.2.69ubuntu0.1
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