Upstream information

CVE-2013-2179 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.3
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 824884 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2013:1117-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • xdm >= 1.1.12-16.3
  • xdm-xsession >= 1.1.12-16.3
Patchnames:
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA xdm-1.1.12-16.3


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 xdm Analysis
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-ESPOS xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Business Critical Linux 15 SP1 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 xdm Unsupported
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 xdm Analysis
SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 xdm Analysis
SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 xdm Analysis
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 xdm Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 xdm Analysis
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Manager Server 4.0 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Manager Server 4.1 xdm Unsupported
SUSE Manager Server 4.2 xdm Unsupported
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 xdm Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 xdm Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 xdm Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 xdm Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 xdm Analysis


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CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 19:50:55 2013
CVE page last modified: Thu Feb 1 00:31:38 2024