coreutils (SL6)

Synopsis: Low: coreutils security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Advisory ID: SLSA-2013:1652-2
Issue Date: 2013-11-21
CVE Numbers: CVE-2013-0221
CVE-2013-0222
CVE-2013-0223

It was discovered that the sort, uniq, and join utilities did not properly
restrict the use of the alloca() function. An attacker could use this flaw
to crash those utilities by providing long input strings. (CVE-2013-0221,
CVE-2013-0222, CVE-2013-0223)

SL6
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm
coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.x86_64.rpm
i386
coreutils-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm
coreutils-libs-8.4-31.el6.i686.rpm

– Scientific Linux Development Team