CVE-2013-4133

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

Weakness

The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
• For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/130.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/131.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/494.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/495.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/496.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/666.html

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00002.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/16/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61201
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4133
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-4133
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/85797
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4133