Improper Input Validation Affecting coreutils package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
7.24% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-COREUTILS-2319192
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed23 Nov 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Nov 2013

CVE-2013-0221  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for coreutils.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. 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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