CVE-2013-4132

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-09-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

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.

Affected products

Kde-Workspace: through 4.10.5
Kde Sc: through 4.10.5
Opensuse: 12.2

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/
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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