Description
Several memory vulnerabilities were identified within the OpenSC packages, particularly in the card enrollment process using pkcs15-init when a user or administrator enrolls cards. To take advantage of these flaws, an attacker must have physical access to the computer system and employ a custom-crafted USB device or smart card to manipulate responses to APDUs. This manipulation can potentially allow compromise key generation, certificate loading, and other card management operations during enrollment.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
OpenSC
Default version status: unaffected
0 to < 0.24.0affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Default version status: affected
0:0.20.0-7.el8_9 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Default version status: affected
0:0.23.0-3.el9_3 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Default version status: unknown
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7876 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7879 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-40661 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240913 ↗
- https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/issues/2792#issuecomment-1674806651 ↗
- https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/releases/tag/0.24.0-rc1 ↗
- https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/wiki/OpenSC-security-advisories ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/13/3 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00024.html ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3CPQOMCDWFRBMEFR5VK4N5MMXXU42ODE/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GLYEFIBBA37TK3UNMZN5NOJ7IWCIXLQP/ ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00026.html ↗