CVE-2020-11937 Resource exhaustion vulnerability in whoopsie

2020-06-1100:00:00

CWE-400

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5.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

5.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "whoopsie",
    "vendor": "Canonical",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "0.2.52.5ubuntu0.5",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0.2.52",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "lessThan": "0.2.62ubuntu0.5",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0.2.62",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "lessThan": "0.2.69ubuntu0.1",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0.2.69",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]