NVD

Id
38275  
Name
CVE-2013-2179  
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.  
Reject
 
CVSS Version
2  
CVSS Score
4.3  
Severity
Medium  
CVSS Base Score
4.3  
CVSS Impact Subscore
2.9  
CVSS Exploit Subscore
8.6  
CVSS Vector
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)  
Pub Date
2017-01-18  
Published
2013-12-26  
Modified Date
2013-12-27  
Seq
2013-2179  

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