CVE-2013-0221

GNU Coreutils 'sort' Text Utility - Local Buffer Overflow

Severity Score

4.3

*CVSS v2

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

SUSE coreutils-i18n.patch para GNU coreutils permite a atacantes dependientes del contexto provocar una denegación de servicio (caída y fallo de segmentación) a través de una cadena larga hacia el comando sort, cuando se usa el switch (1) -d o (2) -M, lo que desencadena en un desbordamiento de búfer basado en pila en la función alloca.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2012-12-06 CVE Reserved
2013-01-21 First Exploit
2013-03-13 CVE Published
2024-06-10 EPSS Updated
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
CWE-665: Improper Initialization

CAPEC

References (6)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38232	2013-01-21
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538	2024-08-06
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19	2024-08-06

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html	2023-02-13
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903464	2013-11-20
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0221	2013-11-20

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux"				6.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux" and version "6.0"		-		Affected
Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse"		Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Opensuse"				12.1 Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Opensuse" and version "12.1"		-		Affected
Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse"		Opensuse Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Opensuse"				12.2 Search vendor "Opensuse" for product "Opensuse" and version "12.2"		-		Affected