CVE-2013-0223

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 join command, when using the -i switch, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the alloca function.

Score

CVSS 2.0 1.9 Low

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2013-11-23

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Opensuse (Opensuse)
• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798541
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903466
• https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19