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 join command, when using the -i switch, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the alloca function.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798541
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903466
Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19
Scores
EPSS
0.0051
EPSS Percentile
39.7%
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (4)
opensuse/opensuse
11.4
opensuse/opensuse
12.1
opensuse/opensuse
12.2
redhat/enterprise_linux
6.0
Published
Nov 23, 2013
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026