SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2013-4132

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)…

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 2.41%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.41%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
2.41% probability · 83th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-310
Affected
kde/kde-workspace · kde/kde sc · opensuse/opensuse
Source
secalert@redhat.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.