RHSA-2020:4483 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: opensc security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 4, 2020
Updated · November 22, 2025
Topic
An update for opensc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
The OpenSC set of libraries and utilities provides support for working with smart cards. OpenSC focuses on cards that support cryptographic operations and enables their use for authentication, mail encryption, or digital signatures.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: opensc (0.20.0). (BZ#1810660)
Security Fix(es):
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opensc: Out-of-bounds access of an ASN.1 Bitstring in decode_bit_string in libopensc/asn1.c (CVE-2019-15945)
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opensc: Out-of-bounds access of an ASN.1 Octet string in asn1_decode_entry in libopensc/asn1.c (CVE-2019-15946)
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opensc: Improper handling of buffer limits for CAC certificates (CVE-2019-19481)
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opensc: Double free in coolkey_free_private_data in libopensc/card-coolkey.c (CVE-2019-20792)
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opensc: Incorrect read operation during parsing of a SETCOS file attribute (CVE-2019-19479)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.