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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-40661): OpenSC vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
Nov 6, 2023
Added
Mar 13, 2025
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Several memory vulnerabilities were identified within the OpenSC packages, particularly in the card enrollment process using pkcs15-init when a user or administrator enrolls cards. To take advantage of these flaws, an attacker must have physical access to the computer system and employ a custom-crafted USB device or smart card to manipulate responses to APDUs. This manipulation can potentially allow
compromise key generation, certificate loading, and other card management operations during enrollment.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-openscubuntu-pro-upgrade-opensc-pkcs11
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