Vulnerability · Published Aug 6, 2020 · Assigned by canonical

CVE-2020-11937Resource exhaustion vulnerability in whoopsie

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in whoopsie from Canonical. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 41% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 59.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Canonical	whoopsie	0.2.52 – before 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.50.2.62 – before 0.2.62ubuntu0.50.2.69 – before 0.2.69ubuntu0.1

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1881982 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer x_refsource_CONFIRM
USN-4450-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU