VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-10109

high
Published 2017-02-23 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in pcsc-lite before 1.8.20 allows a remote attackers to cause denial of service (crash) via a command that uses "cardsList" after the handle has been released through the SCardReleaseContext function.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
16.10 Affected —
16.04 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Fixed 1.8.20-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.8.20-1
sid Fixed 1.8.20-1
forky Fixed 1.8.20-1
bullseye Fixed 1.8.20-1
bookworm Fixed 1.8.20-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
musclepcsc-lite{"endIncluding":"1.8.19"}

References

CWEs

CWE-416

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.