CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-15570
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-07-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
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.
Affected configurations
• whoopsie project whoopsie (<= 0.2.69)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/README.md Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/whoopsie_killer2.py Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZXGwC7PWYE Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/README.md Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/whoopsie_killer2.py Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZXGwC7PWYE Exploit, Third Party Advisory