CVE-2018-16423

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
VIR risk

Description

A double free when handling responses from a smartcard in sc_file_set_sec_attr in libopensc/sc.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smartcards to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.19.0~rc1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.19.0~rc1-1
debian debianforkyfixed0.19.0~rc1-1
debian debiansidfixed0.19.0~rc1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.19.0~rc1-1

References

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Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.