CVE-2019-6502

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

sc_context_create in ctx.c in libopensc in OpenSC 0.19.0 has a memory leak, as demonstrated by a call from eidenv.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-6502

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6502.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202003-2

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed0.20.0-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.20.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.20.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed0.20.0-1
debian debiansidfixed0.20.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.20.0-1

References

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