Bug 903465 (CVE-2013-0222)

Summary:	CVE-2013-0222 coreutils: segfault in uniq with long line input
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	admiller, btotty, jrusnack, kdudka, kzak, ovasik, p, twaugh
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Bug Depends On:	903468, 1015019
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Description Vincent Danen 2013-01-24 03:49:52 UTC

It was reported [1] that the uniq command suffered from a segfault when processing input streams that contained extremely long strings.  This flaw is due to the inclusion of the coreutils-i18n.patch.

SUSE has fixed this by fixing the patch.  The changes can be seen here [2].  (There is probably e better place to get the patch, but I don't know where).

[1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796243
[2] https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19


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Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2013-01-24 03:54:38 UTC

Created coreutils tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 903468]

Comment 2 Ondrej Vasik 2013-01-24 15:59:04 UTC

Thanks Vincent, but fedora-all is not really true, I already fixed the issue in Rawhide...
coreutils-8.20-6.fc19
- fix multiple segmantation faults in i18n patch (by SUSE) (#869442, #902917)

Should I just close the bugzillas reported by you as duplicates of #902917/#869442 ?

Btw. all RHELs are affected as well, they use the vulnerable alloca constructs as well...

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2013-01-29 23:30:39 UTC

Well, we're not as concerned with Rawhide as we are with released versions.  So unless it's fixed in Fedora 17 and 18, the fedora-all tracker should remain open.  Once they are fixed there, feel free to close it via the regular process.

For RHEL, we know they are affected.  See #c0's statement regarding how we are deferring the fix (low-impact flaw).

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-02-01 16:28:13 UTC

coreutils-8.17-8.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 20:59:14 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1652 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html