CVE-2013-0221

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—💥 Exploit

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.

CVSS

Version: 2.0
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Base score: 4.3

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 7.24%
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 94
Score date: 10/12/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

💥 Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Published on Exploit-DB · GNU Coreutils 'sort' Text Utility - Local Buffer Overflow (1/21/2013)

Affected technologies (2)

Opensuse — Opensuse Redhat — Enterprise Linux

CWEs

CWE-20

References

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