Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package opensc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-OPENSC-1910578
  • published25 Feb 2025
  • disclosed18 Apr 2022

Introduced: 18 Apr 2022

CVE-2021-42779  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream opensc package and not the opensc package as distributed by Ubuntu.

A heap use after free issue was found in Opensc before version 0.22.0 in sc_file_valid.