CVE-2013-0221

MediumCVSS 4.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.htmlVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538Exploit, Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903464Issue Tracking
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19Exploit, Patch
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.htmlVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538Exploit, Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903464Issue Tracking
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19Exploit, Patch

Timeline

Published: Nov 23, 2013
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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