CVE-2020-11937 (GCVE-0-2020-11937)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-08-06 22:50 – Updated: 2024-09-17 04:15
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EPSS
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Title
Resource exhaustion vulnerability in whoopsie
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
4 references
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|---|---|
| https://launchpad.net/bugs/1881982 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/sungjungk/whoopsie_killer | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/4450-1/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
Impacted products
Date Public
2020-06-11 00:00
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model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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