CVE-2013-4143

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 30, 2014
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jun 12, 2013

Description

The (1) checkPasswd and (2) checkGroupXlockPasswds functions in xlockmore before 5.43 do not properly handle when a NULL value is returned upon an error by the crypt or dispcrypt function as implemented in glibc 2.17 and later, which allows attackers to bypass the screen lock via vectors related to invalid salts.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/xlock/xlockmore.README
[oss-security] 20130718 Re: CVE Request - xlockmore 5.43 fixes a security flawmailing-list
[oss-security] 20130716 CVE Request - xlockmore 5.43 fixes a security flawmailing-list

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