CVE-2018-16425

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk

Description

A double free when handling responses from an HSM Card in sc_pkcs15emu_sc_hsm_init in libopensc/pkcs15-sc-hsm.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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
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
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0.19.0~rc1-1
sid Fixed 0.19.0~rc1-1
forky Fixed 0.19.0~rc1-1
bullseye Fixed 0.19.0~rc1-1
bookworm Fixed 0.19.0~rc1-1

References

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

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