CVE-2013-0222
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
2.1
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Red Hat Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 12.2 | Affected | — |
| 12.1 | Affected | — |
| 11.4 | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 0 |
| sid | Fixed | 0 |
| forky | Fixed | 0 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0 |
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796243
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903465
- https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-0222
CWEs
CWE-119
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