CVE-2019-11476

Publication date 9 July 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
whoopsie	19.04 disco	Fixed 0.2.64ubuntu0.1
	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 0.2.62ubuntu1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0.2.62ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.2.52.5ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4052-1
Whoopsie vulnerability
9 July 2019

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11476