Unchecked Error Condition Affecting coreutils-libs package, versions <0:8.4-31.el6


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-COREUTILSLIBS-1472306
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed15 Jan 2013

Introduced: 15 Jan 2013

CVE-2013-0223  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-391  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-665  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 coreutils-libs to version 0:8.4-31.el6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2013:1652.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream coreutils-libs package and not the coreutils-libs package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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