Out-of-bounds Read Affecting opensc package, versions <0.16.0-3+deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-OPENSC-282161
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed4 Sept 2018

Introduced: 4 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16427  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 opensc to version 0.16.0-3+deb9u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream opensc package and not the opensc package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Various out of bounds reads when handling responses in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smartcards to potentially crash the opensc library using programs.