CVE-2013-0221

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.

CVSS v2.0 NVD

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

7.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 94th percentile

Published

2013-11-23

Updated

2024-08-06

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38232

Security advisories

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html
• https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_ac…
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903464

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry