RHEL 6 : kdeplasma-addons (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - kdeplasma-addons: Weak passwords generated by PasteMacroExpander CVE-2013-2120 Note that Nessus has not tested for...

SUSE CVE-2013-2120

The %password... macro in pastemacroexpander.cpp in the KDE Paste Applet before 4.10.5 in kdeplasma-addons does not properly generate passwords, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass authentication via a brute-force attack...