CVE-2020-11937

MEDIUM

Canonical Whoopsie - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

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.

References (4)

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer

View Exploit ZIP pw:eip

[Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1881982

[Vendor Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1

[Third Party Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0008

EPSS Percentile 23.7%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-401 CWE-400

Status published

Affected Products (27)

canonical/whoopsie

... and 12 more

Timeline

Published Aug 06, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026