CVE-2013-0222

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 uniq command, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the alloca function.

References

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=903465

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796243

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-11-23

Updated: 2023-02-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High