CVE-2013-0221

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-11-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

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 products

Opensuse: 12.1, 12.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0

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

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