CVE-2013-4133 Denial of service in kde-workspace

What is CVE-2013-4133?

CVE-2013-4133 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 10 Dec 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

kde-workspace before 4.10.5 has a memory leak in plasma desktop

Weakness: CWE-404

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4133?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Kde Kde-Workspace.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4133?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2013-4133 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4133 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hh5r-96cm-fj96.