Advisory Published

USN-4170-2: Whoopsie regression

First published: Wed Oct 30 2019(Updated: )

USN-4170-1 fixed a vulnerability in Whoopsie. The update caused Whoopsie to crash when sending reports. 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.

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
All of
ubuntu/libwhoopsie0<0.2.66ubuntu0.2
0.2.66ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu Ubuntu=19.10
All of
ubuntu/whoopsie<0.2.66ubuntu0.2
0.2.66ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu Ubuntu=19.10
All of
ubuntu/libwhoopsie0<0.2.64ubuntu0.3
0.2.64ubuntu0.3
Ubuntu Ubuntu=19.04
All of
ubuntu/whoopsie<0.2.64ubuntu0.3
0.2.64ubuntu0.3
Ubuntu Ubuntu=19.04
All of
ubuntu/libwhoopsie0<0.2.62ubuntu0.3
0.2.62ubuntu0.3
Ubuntu Ubuntu=18.04
All of
ubuntu/whoopsie<0.2.62ubuntu0.3
0.2.62ubuntu0.3
Ubuntu Ubuntu=18.04
All of
ubuntu/libwhoopsie0<0.2.52.5ubuntu0.3
0.2.52.5ubuntu0.3
Ubuntu Ubuntu=16.04
All of
ubuntu/whoopsie<0.2.52.5ubuntu0.3
0.2.52.5ubuntu0.3
Ubuntu Ubuntu=16.04

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