CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-4143

2.1 LOW Published 2014-05-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-05-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• david bagley xlockmore (<= 5.42) • david bagley xlockmore 5.24 • david bagley xlockmore 5.25 • david bagley xlockmore 5.26 • david bagley xlockmore 5.27 • david bagley xlockmore 5.28 • david bagley xlockmore 5.29 • david bagley xlockmore 5.30 • david bagley xlockmore 5.31 • david bagley xlockmore 5.32 • david bagley xlockmore 5.33 • david bagley xlockmore 5.34 • david bagley xlockmore 5.35 • david bagley xlockmore 5.36 • david bagley xlockmore 5.37 • david bagley xlockmore 5.38 • david bagley xlockmore 5.39 • david bagley xlockmore 5.40 • david bagley xlockmore 5.41

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