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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-6414: libcacard security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-6414: libcacard security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
03/15/2017
Created
06/18/2022
Added
06/17/2022
Modified
06/17/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libcacard

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