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CVE-2013-0222

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-0222 describes a stack-based buffer overflow in the GNU coreutils uniq command, specifically within the alloca function, triggered by a long string. This vulnerability, affecting SUSE and Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions, can lead to a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash). With a CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it requires local access and has a low impact, primarily causing system unavailability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 48th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 coreutils 8.30-7 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 8.30-7
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 16868-16820Fixed in: 8.30-7
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 1.0 x64Fixed in: 8.30-7
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 1.0 ARMFixed in: 8.30-7
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: coreutils-0:8.4-31.el6
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: coreutils

Vendor Advisories (3)

microsoft2020-Sep/CVE-2013-0222

CVE-2013-0222

Sep 8, 2020
microsoft2013-Nov/CVE-2013-0222Low

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 uniq command which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the alloca function.

Nov 2, 2013
redhatCVE-2013-0222Low

coreutils: segfault in uniq with long line input

Dec 31, 2012

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.novell.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
build.opensuse.org / request/show/149348
Third Party Advisory