Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting libcacard-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-LIBCACARDDEVEL-1983773
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 Feb 2017

Introduced: 21 Feb 2017

CVE-2017-6414  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 libcacard-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcacard-devel package and not the libcacard-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Memory leak in the vcard_apdu_new function in card_7816.c in libcacard before 2.5.3 allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via vectors related to allocating a new APDU object.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1