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FKIE_CVE-2018-16422

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-09-04 00:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:44
Severity
6.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A single byte buffer overflow when handling responses from an esteid Card in sc_pkcs15emu_esteid_init in libopensc/pkcs15-esteid.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smartcards to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2154
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/commit/360e95d45ac4123255a4c796db96337f332160ad#diff-d64c08c80437cf0006ada91e50f20ba0Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/releases/tag/0.19.0-rc1Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00009.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-002-OpenSC/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2154
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/commit/360e95d45ac4123255a4c796db96337f332160ad#diff-d64c08c80437cf0006ada91e50f20ba0Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/releases/tag/0.19.0-rc1Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00009.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-002-OpenSC/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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