F5 Networks: K16859 (CVE-2013-0221): SUSE coreutils vulnerabilities CVE-2013-0221, CVE-2013-0222, and CVE-2013-0223
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
11/23/2013
07/25/2018
02/16/2017
10/13/2017
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 sort command, when using the (1) -d or (2) -M switch, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the alloca function.
Solution(s)
- f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest
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