CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-0221
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-11-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The SUSE coreutils-i18n.patch for GNU coreutils allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a long string to the sort command, when using the (1) -d or (2) -M switch, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the alloca function.
Affected configurations
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
• opensuse opensuse 12.1
• opensuse opensuse 12.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903464 Issue Tracking
- https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19 Exploit, Patch
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538 Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903464 Issue Tracking
- https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19 Exploit, Patch