CVE-2018-16426

opensc: Infinite recusrion handling responses from IAS-ECC cards in card-iasecc.c:iasecc_select_file()

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

2.4

CVSS 3.0

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Published · September 12, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

Endless recursion when handling responses from an IAS-ECC card in iasecc_select_file in libopensc/card-iasecc.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smartcards to hang or crash the opensc library using programs.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 2.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')