Vulnerability CVE-2013-4132
Published: 2013-09-16   Modified: 2013-09-17

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.

Type:

CWE-310

 (Cryptographic Issues)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 
KDE -> Kde-workspace 
KDE -> Kde sc 

 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/
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