{"document":{"aggregate_severity":{"namespace":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/","text":"moderate"},"category":"csaf_vex","csaf_version":"2.0","distribution":{"text":"Copyright 2024 SUSE LLC. All rights reserved.","tlp":{"label":"WHITE","url":"https://www.first.org/tlp/"}},"lang":"en","notes":[{"category":"summary","text":"SUSE CVE-2013-2179","title":"Title"},{"category":"description","text":"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.","title":"Description of the CVE"},{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).","title":"Terms of use"}],"publisher":{"category":"vendor","contact_details":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/contact/","name":"SUSE Product Security Team","namespace":"https://www.suse.com/"},"references":[{"category":"external","summary":"CVE-2013-2179","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2179"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Security Ratings","url":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Bug 824884 for CVE-2013-2179","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/824884"}],"title":"SUSE CVE CVE-2013-2179","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2025-04-25T12:24:40Z","generator":{"date":"2023-02-15T05:38:59Z","engine":{"name":"cve-database.git:bin/generate-csaf-vex.pl","version":"1"}},"id":"CVE-2013-2179","initial_release_date":"2023-02-15T05:38:59Z","revision_history":[{"date":"2023-02-15T05:38:59Z","number":"2","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2023-12-08T04:56:58Z","number":"3","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-03-16T12:51:51Z","number":"4","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-04-25T12:24:40Z","number":"5","summary":"Current version"}],"status":"interim","version":"5"}},"product_tree":{"branches":[{"branches":[{"branches":[{"category":"product_name","name":"openSUSE Tumbleweed","product":{"name":"openSUSE Tumbleweed","product_id":"openSUSE Tumbleweed","product_identification_helper":{"cpe":"cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed"}}},{"category":"product_version","name":"xdm-1.1.12-16.3","product":{"name":"xdm-1.1.12-16.3","product_id":"xdm-1.1.12-16.3","product_identification_helper":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:x:x_display_manager:1.1.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","purl":"pkg:rpm/suse/xdm@1.1.12-16.3?upstream=xdm-1.1.12-16.3.src.rpm"}}},{"category":"product_version","name":"xdm-xsession-1.1.12-16.3","product":{"name":"xdm-xsession-1.1.12-16.3","product_id":"xdm-xsession-1.1.12-16.3","product_identification_helper":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:x:x_display_manager:1.1.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","purl":"pkg:rpm/suse/xdm-xsession@1.1.12-16.3?upstream=xdm-1.1.12-16.3.src.rpm"}}}],"category":"product_family","name":"SUSE Linux Enterprise"}],"category":"vendor","name":"SUSE"}],"relationships":[{"category":"default_component_of","full_product_name":{"name":"xdm-1.1.12-16.3 as component of openSUSE Tumbleweed","product_id":"openSUSE Tumbleweed:xdm-1.1.12-16.3"},"product_reference":"xdm-1.1.12-16.3","relates_to_product_reference":"openSUSE Tumbleweed"},{"category":"default_component_of","full_product_name":{"name":"xdm-xsession-1.1.12-16.3 as component of openSUSE Tumbleweed","product_id":"openSUSE Tumbleweed:xdm-xsession-1.1.12-16.3"},"product_reference":"xdm-xsession-1.1.12-16.3","relates_to_product_reference":"openSUSE Tumbleweed"}]},"vulnerabilities":[{"cve":"CVE-2013-2179","ids":[{"system_name":"SUSE CVE Page","text":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2179"}],"notes":[{"category":"general","text":"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.","title":"CVE description"}],"product_status":{"recommended":["openSUSE Tumbleweed:xdm-1.1.12-16.3","openSUSE Tumbleweed:xdm-xsession-1.1.12-16.3"]},"references":[{"category":"external","summary":"CVE-2013-2179","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2179"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Security Ratings","url":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Bug 824884 for CVE-2013-2179","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/824884"}],"remediations":[{"category":"vendor_fix","details":"To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or \"zypper patch\".\n","product_ids":["openSUSE Tumbleweed:xdm-1.1.12-16.3","openSUSE Tumbleweed:xdm-xsession-1.1.12-16.3"]}],"threats":[{"category":"impact","date":"2013-07-09T17:50:55Z","details":"moderate"}],"title":"CVE-2013-2179"}]}