Is CVE-2013-0221 being actively exploited?

CVE-2013-0221 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2013-0221?

CVE-2013-0221 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 4.3 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2013-0221

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 7.2%EU EUVD

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.

Key facts

CVSS score: 4.3 (v2.0)
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-20
EPSS score: 7.2% (94th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2013-0255)
Published: November 23, 2013
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-0255 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

opensuse / opensuse
opensuse / opensuse
redhat / enterprise linux

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html(Vendor Advisory)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798538(Exploit, Issue Tracking)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903464(Issue Tracking)
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19(Exploit, Patch)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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