Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting libcacard-tools package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (28th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-LIBCACARDTOOLS-1370069
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 21 Feb 2017
Introduced: 21 Feb 2017
CVE-2017-6414 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 libcacard-tools.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcacard-tools package and not the libcacard-tools package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL: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.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96541
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1427833
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/libcacard/commit/?id=9113dc6a303604a2d9812ac70c17d076ef11886c
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/libcacard/tree/NEWS?id=aaa5251791bf0b1640afcba77a7d79ea23c42d53
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-6414
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/11
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
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