Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting whoopsie package, versions <0.2.52.5ubuntu0.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.08% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-WHOOPSIE-575723
  • published13 Jul 2020
  • disclosed6 Jul 2020

Introduced: 6 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-15570  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 whoopsie to version 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream whoopsie package and not the whoopsie package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1