CVE-2013-0221 (GCVE-0-2013-0221)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-11-23 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 14:18
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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