Whoopsie could be made to crash or expose sensitive information if it processed a specially crafted crash report.
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.
9 July 2019
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Whoopsie could be made to crash or expose sensitive information if it processed a specially crafted crash report.
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.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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