Vulnerability · Published Jul 6, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-15570
Medium 5.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.1% (higher than 65% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.1%top 34.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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 products (as reported)
References
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZXGwC7PWYE x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/whoopsie_killer2.py x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/README.md x_refsource_MISC
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie x_refsource_MISC
- USN-4450-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU