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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.5 Medium

CVE-2020-11937

Resource exhaustion vulnerability in whoopsie

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 products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Canonical whoopsie

  • 0.2.52 to < 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.5affected
  • 0.2.62 to < 0.2.62ubuntu0.5affected
  • 0.2.69 to < 0.2.69ubuntu0.1affected

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