PT-2013-2165 · Gnu+3 · Gnu Coreutils+3
Vincent Danen
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Published
2013-11-20
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Updated
2024-06-15
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CVE-2013-0222
CVSS v2.0
2.1
Low
| Vector | AV:L/AC:L/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. This is achieved by providing a long string to the
uniq command, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the alloca function.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
DoS
Buffer Overflow
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Weakness Enumeration
Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Centos
Gnu Coreutils
Red Hat
Suse