N/A - USN-4052-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	Whoopsie vulnerability

Informations
Name	USN-4052-1	First vendor Publication	2019-07-09
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2019-07-09
Severity (Vendor)	N/A	Revision	N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score	NA
Base Score	NA	Environmental Score	NA
impact SubScore	NA	Temporal Score	NA
Exploitabality Sub Score	NA

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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score	N/A	Attack Range	N/A
Cvss Impact Score	N/A	Attack Complexity	N/A
Cvss Expoit Score	N/A	Authentication	N/A
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 19.04 - Ubuntu 18.10 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Whoopsie could be made to crash or expose sensitive information if it processed a specially crafted crash report.

Software Description: - whoopsie: Ubuntu error tracker submission

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 or expose sensitive information.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04:
libwhoopsie0 0.2.64ubuntu0.1
whoopsie 0.2.64ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.10:
libwhoopsie0 0.2.62ubuntu1
whoopsie 0.2.62ubuntu1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
libwhoopsie0 0.2.62ubuntu0.1
whoopsie 0.2.62ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libwhoopsie0 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.1
whoopsie 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4052-1
CVE-2019-11476

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie/0.2.64ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie/0.2.62ubuntu1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie/0.2.62ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whoopsie/0.2.52.5ubuntu0.1