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) DES or (3) MD5 encrypted password, when FIPS-140 is enable, to KDM or an (4) invalid password to KCheckPass.

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of kdebase package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue does not affect the version of kdebase-workspace package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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