CVE-2013-4132

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2013-4132 · Published 16/09/2013 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2013-4132 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting kde-workspace (kde), kde sc (kde).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.4%, higher than 84.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
kde-workspace kde	`≤ 4.10.5`	No fix yet
kde sc kde	`≤ 4.10.5`	No fix yet

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.

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