CVE-2013-0221
N/A
Published: November 23, 2013 at 06:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:48 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsEnterprise LinuxopenSUSE
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 7%
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (4)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMExploitIssue Tracking
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue Tracking
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903464x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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