CVE-2013-0221

Public on 2013-11-23
Modified on 2014-09-16
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.
Severity
Low severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
2.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 coreutils 2013-12-11 ALAS-2013-261 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity Red Hat: CVE-2013-0221 Mitre: CVE-2013-0221