CVE-2013-0222 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Coreutils

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-391 — Unchecked Error ConditionCWE-665 — Improper Initialization7 documents6 sources
Severity
2.1LOWNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 65.50%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
OpensuseRedhat Enterprise LinuxDebian Coreutils+2 more
Timeline
PublishedNov 23
Latest updateMay 5

Description

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.

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDopensuse/opensuse11.4, 12.1, 12.2+2

Also affects: Enterprise Linux 6.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-833h-pm7q-jw8w: The SUSE coreutils-i18n↗2022-05-05
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Microsoft
CVE-2013-0222: NIST NVD Details: https://nvd↗2020-09-08
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Debian
CVE-2013-0222: coreutils - The SUSE coreutils-i18n.patch for GNU coreutils allows context-dependent attacke...↗2013
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Red Hat
coreutils: segfault in uniq with long line input↗2012-12-31
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2013-0222 coreutils: segfault in uniq with long line input↗2013-01-24
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Bugzilla
CVE-2013-0221 CVE-2013-0222 CVE-2013-0223 coreutils various flaws [fedora-all]↗2013-01-24
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