CVE-2013-0221

high

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.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2013-0255

https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903464

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-11-23

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.07629