VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2013-0221

CVSS score4.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability7.24%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2013-11-23
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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 sort command, when using the (1) -d or (2) -M switch, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the alloca function.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references