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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:16:58 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Steven Christey <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request coreutils

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On 01/21/2013 07:59 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 21.01.2013 18:54, Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Can someone assign a CVE id for a buffer overflow in coreutils? 
>> Its the same code snippet (coreutils-i18n.patch) and it affects
>> sort, uniq and join:
> 
> It's probably worth to mention that these are SuSE-specific and not
> in upstream, if I understand correctly.
> 
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538 
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796243 
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798541
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> /mjt

I'm not clear on exploitation. You would have to run sort/uniq/join
against attacker supplied input, and then the sort/uniq/join binaries
would crash. Is there any code execution possible? In general DoS's in
user programs doesn't get CVE's unless the user program loads remote
content easily/commonly (e.g. email/web browsers). Although I could be
wrong, STeve can you confirm that these issues don't need a CVE?

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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