CVE-2020-11937CWE-400

Resource exhaustion vulnerability in whoopsie

Medium · published August 6, 2020

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
39.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00468 · 39.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2020-08-06T22:50Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 AUG 22:50Z
    Resource exhaustion vulnerability in whoopsie
    cvelistv5