CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-6414
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-772
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.
Affected configurations
• libcacard project libcacard (< 2.5.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/11 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96541 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1427833 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/libcacard/commit/?id=9113dc6a303604a2d9812ac70c17d076ef11886c Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/libcacard/tree/NEWS?id=aaa5251791bf0b1640afcba77a7d79ea23c42d53 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/11 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96541 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1427833 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/libcacard/commit/?id=9113dc6a303604a2d9812ac70c17d076ef11886c Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/libcacard/tree/NEWS?id=aaa5251791bf0b1640afcba77a7d79ea23c42d53 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory