CVE-2018-16423 — Double Free in Project Opensc

CWE-415 — Double FreeCWE-120 — Classic Buffer Overflow8 documents7 sources
Severity
6.6MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 58.58%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Opensc Project Opensc
Timeline
PublishedSep 4
Latest updateMay 14

Description

A double free when handling responses from a smartcard in sc_file_set_sec_attr in libopensc/sc.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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 0.7 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianopensc_project/opensc< 0.19.0~rc1-1+3

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-x56f-5g95-vmfx: A double free when handling responses from a smartcard in sc_file_set_sec_attr in libopensc/sc↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2018-16423: A double free when handling responses from a smartcard in sc_file_set_sec_attr in libopensc/sc↗2018-09-04
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CVEList
CVE-2018-16423: A double free when handling responses from a smartcard in sc_file_set_sec_attr in libopensc/sc↗2018-09-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
opensc: Double free handling responses from smartcards in libopensc/sc.c:sc_file_set_sec_attr()↗2018-09-12
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Debian
CVE-2018-16423: opensc - A double free when handling responses from a smartcard in sc_file_set_sec_attr i...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16423 opensc: Double free handling responses from smartcards in libopensc/sc.c:sc_file_set_sec_attr()↗2018-09-12
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-16423 opensc: Double free handling responses from smartcards in libopensc/sc.c:sc_file_set_sec_attr() [fedora-all]↗2018-09-12
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