PT-2013-1304 · Gnu+3 · Gnu Coreutils+3

Published 2013-09-25 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2013-0221

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU coreutils (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a segmentation fault and crash, via a long string to the sort command when using the -d or -M switch. This triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the alloca function. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation in the sort utility of GNU Core Utilities, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by entering a long string as an argument for sort with the additional parameters -d or -M.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

BDU:2016-01584

CESA-2013_1652

CVE-2013-0221

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10390-1

RHSA-2013:1652

RHSA-2013_1652

SUSE-SU-2013_1489-1

Affected Products

Centos

Gnu Coreutils

Red Hat

Suse

References · 37

• 🔥 https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/38232 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10390-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2013-1652.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-01584 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0221 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0221 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0223 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0222 · Security Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-4042 · Note
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0221 · Note
• http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=c40186dc1a0ccee10f0c5b83fa0ad01d · Note