USN-4170-2: Whoopsie regression
USN-4170-2: Whoopsie regression whoopsie regression A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.10 Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary USN-4170-1 caused a regression in Whoopsie. Software Description whoopsie – Ubuntu error tracker submission Details 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. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.10 libwhoopsie0 – 0.2.66ubuntu0.2 whoopsie – 0.2.66ubuntu0.2 Ubuntu 19.04 libwhoopsie0 – 0.2.64ubuntu0.3 whoopsie – 0.2.64ubuntu0.3 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libwhoopsie0 [ more… ]