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.

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.

coreutils-8.26-1.1 on GA media

coreutils: segfault in "sort -d" and "sort -M" with long line input coreutils: segfault in uniq with long line input coreutils: segfault in "join -i" with long line input

Recommended update for coreutils