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Vigil@nce - Whoopsie: memory leak via parse_report
August 2020 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/?langue=2
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Ubuntu.
Severity: 1/4.
Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on
client.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 05/08/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can create a memory leak via parse_report() of
Whoopsie, in order to trigger a denial of service.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Whoopsie-memory-leak-via-parse-report-33005
