Stack-based Buffer Overflow in SUSE coreutils-i18n.patch for GNU coreutils

CVE-2013-0223 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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