Resource Management Errors Affecting opensc/opensc package, versions [,0.19.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPENSCOPENSC-2364275
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16426  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade opensc/opensc to version 0.19.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. Endless recursion when handling responses from an IAS-ECC card in iasecc_select_file in libopensc/card-iasecc.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smartcards to hang or crash the opensc library using programs.

CVSS Base Scores

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