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CVE-2020-15570

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-07-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

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.

Affected products

• Whoopsie Project Whoopsie: through 0.2.69

References

• https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/README.md
• https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/whoopsie_killer2.py
• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZXGwC7PWYE
• https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/README.md
• https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer2/blob/master/whoopsie_killer2.py
• https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZXGwC7PWYE

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