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USN-5281-1: OpenSC vulnerabilities

8 June 2022

Several security issues were fixed in OpenSC.

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Releases

Packages

  • opensc - Smart card utilities with support for PKCS#15 compatible cards

Details

It was discovered that some OpenSC smart card drivers mishandled memory
when performing certain decoding operations. An attacker could possibly
use this issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM.
(CVE-2019-15945, CVE-2019-15946)

It was discovered that some OpenSC smart card drivers had buffer overflow
vulnerabilities. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service or other unspecified impact.
(CVE-2020-26570, CVE-2020-26571, CVE-2020-26572)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

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