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Red Hat: CVE-2018-16418: Moderate: opensc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2019:2154)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-16418: Moderate: opensc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2019:2154)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/04/2018
Created
08/08/2019
Added
08/07/2019
Modified
03/03/2021

Description

A buffer overflow when handling string concatenation in util_acl_to_str in tools/util.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.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-opensc
  • redhat-upgrade-opensc-debuginfo

References

  • CVE-2018-16418
  • RHSA-2019:2154

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