CVE-2020-15570

Publication date 6 July 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
whoopsie	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 0.2.69ubuntu0.1
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0.2.62ubuntu0.5
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.5
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4450-1
Whoopsie vulnerabilities
4 August 2020