CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-11937

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2020-08-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-08-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-401

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.

Affected configurations

• canonical whoopsie 0.2.66 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.67 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.68 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.69 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.49 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.50 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.51 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.52 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.52.1 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.52.2 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.52.3 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.52.4 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.52.5 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.1 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.2 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.3 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.4 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.58 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.59 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.59build1 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.60 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.61 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.62 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.62ubuntu0.1 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.62ubuntu0.2 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.62ubuntu0.3 • canonical whoopsie 0.2.62ubuntu0.4

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References