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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T14:18:09.562Z

Reserved: 2012-12-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2013-0221

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2013-11-23T18:55:04.157

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2013-0221

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2013-01-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-0221 - Bugzilla