CVE-2017-6414 Denial of service in n/a
Local guest OS users can cause host memory exhaustion and denial of service via a memory leak in the libcacard library.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2017-6414?
CVE-2017-6414 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 15 Mar 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-772
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-6414?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Libcacard Project Libcacard.
How do I fix CVE-2017-6414?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2017-6414 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6414 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6414, GHSA-57wp-pwr5-mjc8, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6414, openSUSE-SU-2024:10928-1.