Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting libcacard package, versions <1:2.5.0-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-LIBCACARD-287642
  • published15 Mar 2017
  • disclosed15 Mar 2017

Introduced: 15 Mar 2017

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 libcacard to version 1:2.5.0-3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcacard package and not the libcacard package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 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 Base Scores

version 3.1