CVE-2013-0222

Summary

CVECVE-2013-0222
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-11-23 18:55:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-13 04:39:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Coreutils All All All All
Application Gnu Coreutils All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 11.4 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 11.4 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.2 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
903465 – (CVE-2013-0222) CVE-2013-0222 coreutils: segfault in uniq with long line input CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
Request 149348 - openSUSE Build Service CONFIRM build.opensuse.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
access.redhat.com | CVE-2013-0222 MISC access.redhat.com
Bug 796243 – VUL-1: CVE-2013-0222: coreutils: segmentation fault in "uniq" with long line input CONFIRM bugzilla.novell.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 900195 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for coreutils 8.30
  • 903168 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for coreutils (2577)
  • 905816 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for coreutils (2577-1)
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