CVE-2020-15570

Published: 6 July 2020

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.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 5.5

Status

Package	Release	Status
whoopsie Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (0.2.62ubuntu0.5)
	eoan	Ignored (reached end-of-life)
	focal	Released (0.2.69ubuntu0.1)
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Released (0.2.52.5ubuntu0.5)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15570
https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/README.md
https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/whoopsie_killer2.py
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZXGwC7PWYE
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4450-1
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie/+bug/1882180

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