CVE-2013-0221

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 None
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2013-0221
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2013-11-23T18:55:04
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2023-02-13T04:39:01
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1652
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0221
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538 Exploit Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903464 Issue Tracking
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19 Exploit Patch
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0221
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0221
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:16:09 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-01 20:56:28 2013-11-23T18:55Z 2013-11-23T18:55:04 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-01 20:56:28 2021-05-13T20:29:24 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-01 20:56:28 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated
2023-02-02 19:04:07 2023-02-02T18:17:04 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-02 19:04:07 Analyzed Modified Vulnerability Status updated
2023-02-02 19:04:07 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. CVE-2013-0221 coreutils: segfault in "sort -d" and "sort -M" with long line input Description updated
2023-02-02 19:04:13 References updated
2023-02-13 05:06:11 2023-02-13T04:39:01 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-13 05:06:12 CVE-2013-0221 coreutils: segfault in "sort -d" and "sort -M" with long line input 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. Description updated