CVE-2018-16427

Various out of bounds reads when handling responses in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smartcards to potentially crash the opensc library using programs.

• CWE-125

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2154
• https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/pull/1447/commits/8fe377e93b4b56060e5bbfb6f3142ceaeca744faPatch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/releases/tag/0.19.0-rc1Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00009.html
• https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-002-OpenSC/Third Party Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2154
• https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/pull/1447/commits/8fe377e93b4b56060e5bbfb6f3142ceaeca744faPatch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/releases/tag/0.19.0-rc1Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00009.html
• https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-002-OpenSC/Third Party Advisory

Published

Sep 4, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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