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CVE-2017-6414 (GCVE-0-2017-6414)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-15 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 15:25
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Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2017-03-01 00:00
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