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FKIE_CVE-2019-11476

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-08-29 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:12

Severity

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

An integer overflow in whoopsie before versions 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.1, 0.2.62ubuntu0.1, 0.2.64ubuntu0.1, 0.2.66, results in an out-of-bounds write to a heap allocated buffer when processing large crash dumps. This results in a crash or possible code-execution in the context of the whoopsie process.

References

URL	Tags
security@ubuntu.com	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172858/Ubuntu-Apport-Whoopsie-DoS-Integer-Overflow.html
security@ubuntu.com	https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/whoopsie/%2Bbug/1830863	Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
security@ubuntu.com	https://usn.ubuntu.com/4052-1/	Exploit, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172858/Ubuntu-Apport-Whoopsie-DoS-Integer-Overflow.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/whoopsie/%2Bbug/1830863	Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://usn.ubuntu.com/4052-1/	Exploit, Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
canonical	ubuntu_linux	16.04
canonical	ubuntu_linux	18.04
canonical	ubuntu_linux	18.10
canonical	ubuntu_linux	19.04

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CVE-2019-11476 (GCVE-0-2019-11476)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-08-29 14:38 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:15

Title

Integer overflow in whoopsie results in out-of-bounds heap write

Summary

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Assigner

canonical mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4052-1/
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/whoop…
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172858/Ubunt…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Ubuntu	Whoopsie	Affected: before 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.1 Affected: before 0.2.62ubuntu0.1 Affected: before 0.2.64ubuntu0.1 Affected: before 0.2.66

Date Public

2019-07-09 00:00

Credits

Kevin Backhouse of Semmle Security Research Team

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