CVE-2020-15570

Summary

CVECVE-2020-15570
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-07-06 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-12 17:15:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-770

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Whoopsie Project Whoopsie All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
whoopsie_killer2/README.md at master · sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2 · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
USN-4450-1: Whoopsie vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
denial of service attack on the Ubuntu error reporting daemon (a.k.a. whoopsie) - YouTube MISC www.youtube.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
whoopsie_killer2/whoopsie_killer2.py at master · sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2 · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
whoopsie package : Ubuntu MISC launchpad.net Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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