USN-4170-3

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    USN-4170-3

    Published: 5 Nov 2019Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: whoopsie regression

    Details: USN-4170-1 fixed a vulnerability in Whoopsie and USN-4170-2 fixed a subsequent regression. That update was incomplete and could still result in Whoopsie potentially crashing when uploading crash reports on some architectures. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Kevin Backhouse discovered Whoopsie incorrectly handled very large crash reports. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, expose sensitive information or execute code as the whoopsie user.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4170-3, https://launchpad.net/bugs/1850608

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: whoopsie

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.2.52.5ubuntu0.4

    Affected versions

    0.2.49
    0.2.50
    0.2.51
    0.2.52
    0.2.52.1
    0.2.52.2
    0.2.52.3
    0.2.52.4
    0.2.52.5
    0.2.52.5ubuntu0.1
    0.2.52.5ubuntu0.2
    0.2.52.5ubuntu0.3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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