CVE-2013-4132 (GCVE-0-2013-4132)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-09-16 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:30
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/117 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/120 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111261/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
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