Vulnerability Details 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.076
EPSS Ranking 91.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903464
- https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903464
- https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19