CVE-2020-15570

medium

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.

References

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZXGwC7PWYE

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1/

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie

https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/whoopsie_killer2.py

https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/README.md

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-07-06

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H