CVE-2013-0221

Published: Nov 23, 2013Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-20

4.3MEDIUM

NVD MITRE

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAccess Vector

Network

AC:MAccess Complexity

Medium

Au:NAuthentication

None

Impact

C:NConfidentiality

None

I:NIntegrity

None

A:PAvailability

Partial

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected Products

redhat

commercial·USaka red hat

enterprise linuxOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

opensuse

oss-project·DE

opensuseOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

The GNU Project

oss-project·USaka gnu

GNU Core UtilitiesLibraryLibrary

OSS Libraries / generic-library

АО «НТЦ ИТ РОСА»

commercial·RU

РОСА КобальтOn-prem

Operating Systems / linux-distro

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Exploitability

1 exploit source identified

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References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html

rhn.redhat.com

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538

bugzilla.novell.com

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903464

bugzilla.redhat.com

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