CVE-2018-16425 Use after free in n/a

Medium 6.6 Published Updated

Attackers with crafted smartcards can trigger a double free in OpenSC, causing application crashes or potential other impacts.

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-2018-16425?

CVE-2018-16425 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Opensc Project Opensc, published on 4 Sep 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A double free when handling responses from an HSM Card in sc_pkcs15emu_sc_hsm_init in libopensc/pkcs15-sc-hsm.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.

Weakness: CWE-415

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-16425?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Opensc Project Opensc.

How do I fix CVE-2018-16425?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2018-16425 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-16425 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16425, GHSA-634q-77fv-9cq7, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16425.

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