CVE-2013-0222 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00143.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Opensuse	Opensuse
Redhat	Enterprise Linux

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:::::::*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
coreutils-0:8.4-31.el6	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6	RHSA-2013:1652	2013-11-20T00:00:00Z

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2013-0256	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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796243
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903465
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0222
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-0222

History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00063}`	epss `{'score': 0.00143}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2013-11-23T18:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T14:18:09.455Z

Reserved: 2012-12-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2013-0222

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2013-11-23T18:55:04.173

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2013-0222

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2012-12-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-0222 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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