CVE-2013-2179 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2013-2179 Interim 1 9 2023-12-08T02:40:19Z current 2021-05-30T13:11:42Z 2023-12-08T02:40:19Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2013-2179 X.Org xdm 1.1.10, 1.1.11, and possibly other versions, when performing authentication using certain implementations of the crypt API function that can return NULL, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) by attempting to log into an account whose password field contains invalid characters, as demonstrated using the crypt function from glibc 2.17 and later with (1) the "!" character in the salt portion of a password field or (2) a password that has been encrypted using DES or MD5 in FIPS-140 mode. The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings openSUSE Tumbleweed xdm-1.1.12-16.3 xdm-xsession-1.1.12-16.3 xdm-1.1.12-16.3 as a component of openSUSE Tumbleweed xdm-xsession-1.1.12-16.3 as a component of openSUSE Tumbleweed X.Org xdm 1.1.10, 1.1.11, and possibly other versions, when performing authentication using certain implementations of the crypt API function that can return NULL, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) by attempting to log into an account whose password field contains invalid characters, as demonstrated using the crypt function from glibc 2.17 and later with (1) the "!" character in the salt portion of a password field or (2) a password that has been encrypted using DES or MD5 in FIPS-140 mode. CVE-2013-2179 openSUSE Tumbleweed:xdm-1.1.12-16.3 openSUSE Tumbleweed:xdm-xsession-1.1.12-16.3 moderate 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P