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 join command, when using the -i switch, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the alloca function.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2013-0257 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 join command, when using the -i switch, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the alloca function.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T14:18:09.644Z

Reserved: 2012-12-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2013-0223

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2013-11-23T18:55:04.187

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

Link: CVE-2013-0223

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2013-01-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-0223 - Bugzilla

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