CVE-2013-4132

KDE-Workspace 4.10.5 and earlier does not properly handle the return value of the glibc 2.17 crypt and pw_encrypt functions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via (1) an invalid salt or a (2) DES or (3) MD5 encrypted password, when FIPS-140 is enable, to KDM or an (4) invalid password to KCheckPass.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2013-09-16

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-310

Affected products

• Kde-workspace (Kde)
• Kde Sc (Kde)
• Opensuse (Opensuse)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00082.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00002.html
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/117
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/120
• https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111261/