Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-0223

Title: Opensuse Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-0223.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Nov 23, 2013

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 1.9 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.14%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-0223: 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.

Impacted Vendors

suse 1

redhat 1

opensuse 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798541 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903466 https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798541 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903466 https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

1.9

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-0223 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 23, 2013 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.