CVE-2013-4132

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductKde-workspace
PublishedSep 16, 2013
First seenSep 16, 2013

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
kde kde-workspacev ≤ 4.10.5—
kde kde_scv ≤ 4.10.5—
opensuse opensuse12.2—

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