CVE-2020-15570
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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.07% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 64.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-07-06 13:59Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 13:22Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-07-06
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770Allocation of Resources Without Limits or ThrottlingBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 49e725dcaab6ef7bb05f8e7906ce9eee02cc6c6eb7329ceb104ef28067bb69b4
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.youtube.comhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZXGwC7PWYE
- github.comhttps://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/whoopsie_killer2.py
- github.comhttps://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/README.md
- launchpad.nethttps://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4450-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1/
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- whoopsie Fixed in 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.5
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- whoopsie Fixed in 0.2.62ubuntu0.5
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- whoopsie Fixed in 0.2.69ubuntu0.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.