CVE-2013-0221

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.3
Exploit probability—
ProductRedhat Enterprise Linux
PublishedNov 23, 2013
First seenNov 23, 2013

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
redhat enterprise_linux6.0—
opensuse opensuse12.1, 12.2—

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