Vulnerability CVE-2013-4143


Published: 2014-05-30

Description:
The (1) checkPasswd and (2) checkGroupXlockPasswds functions in xlockmore before 5.43 do not properly handle when a NULL value is returned upon an error by the crypt or dispcrypt function as implemented in glibc 2.17 and later, which allows attackers to bypass the screen lock via vectors related to invalid salts.

Type:

CWE-Other

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
David bagley -> Xlockmore 

 References:
http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/xlock/xlockmore.README
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/18/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/16/8

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