GNU Coreutils up to 8.9 Service join Eingabe memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in GNU Coreutils up to 8.9. The affected element is the function join of the component Service. The manipulation as part of Eingabe results in memory corruption. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2013-0223. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in GNU Coreutils up to 8.9. Affected is the function join of the component Service. The manipulation as part of a Eingabe leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was disclosed 03/13/2013 with Mandriva as MDVSA-2013:023 as not defined advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at mandriva.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2013-0223 since 12/06/2012. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 71401 (Amazon Linux AMI : coreutils (ALAS-2013-261)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Amazon Linux Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 350483 (Amazon Linux Security Advisory for coreutils: ALAS-2013-261).

Upgrading to version 8.9-23.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (81452), Tenable (71401), SecurityFocus (BID 57516†), OSVDB (91234†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-38732†). The entries VDB-7993 and VDB-65557 are pretty similar. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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Nessus ID: 71401
Nessus Name: Amazon Linux AMI : coreutils (ALAS-2013-261)
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OpenVAS ID: 865284
OpenVAS Name: Fedora Update for coreutils FEDORA-2013-1455
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Coreutils 8.9-23.1

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: gnu.org

Advisory: MDVSA-2013:023
Organization: Mandriva
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2013-0223 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2013-0223
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-7992

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X-Force: 81452
SecurityFocus: 57516 - GNU Coreutils 'join' Text Utility Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
OSVDB: 91234
Vulnerability Center: 38732 - GNU Coreutils 8.6 \x27join -I\x27 Text Utility Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/15/2013 10:53
Updated: 05/06/2021 12:09
Changes: 03/15/2013 10:53 (77), 04/25/2017 22:53 (2), 05/06/2021 12:09 (3)
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