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FKIE_CVE-2013-0222

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2013-11-23 18:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:48
Severity
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 uniq command, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the alloca function.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796243Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903465Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796243Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903465Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
opensuse opensuse 11.4
opensuse opensuse 12.1
opensuse opensuse 12.2
redhat enterprise_linux 6.0
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