CVE-2017-6414

MEDIUM

Libcacard < 2.5.3 - Resource Leak

Title source: rule

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.

References (6)

[Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/11

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96541

[Third Party Advisory] https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1427833

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/libcacard/commit/?id=9113dc6a303604a2d9812ac70c17d076ef11886c

[Release Notes, Third Party Advisory] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/libcacard/tree/NEWS?id=aaa5251791bf0b1640afcba77a7d79ea23c42d53

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0019

EPSS Percentile 40.5%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-772

Status published

Affected Products (2)

n/a/n/a

libcacard_project/libcacard < 2.5.3

Timeline

Published Mar 15, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026