4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.026 Low
EPSS
Percentile
90.3%
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 sort command, when using the (1) -d or (2) -M switch,
which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the alloca function.
Author | Note |
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mdeslaur | Debian/Ubuntu doesn’t use the vulnerable patch |