CVE-2013-4132

high

Description

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.

References

https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111261/

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/120

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/117

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00002.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00082.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-09-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High