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CVE-2020-11937: Resource exhaustion vulnerability in whoopsie

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

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.

Affected products

• Canonical whoopsie: 0.2.66, 0.2.67, 0.2.68, 0.2.69, 0.2.49, 0.2.50 (+21)

References

• https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1881982
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1/
• https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1881982
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1/

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