CVE-2013-0221

Publication date 23 November 2013

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
coreutils 12.10 quantal
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
11.10 oneiric
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

Debian/Ubuntu doesn't use the vulnerable patch