CVE-2024-8443

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the libopensc OpenPGP driver. A crafted USB device or smart card with malicious responses to the APDUs during the card enrollment process using the `pkcs15-init` tool may lead to out-of-bound rights, possibly resulting in arbitrary code execution.

Score

CVSS 3.1 2.9 Low

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2024-09-10

Last modified

2026-06-30

Weaknesses

CWE-122, CWE-787

Affected products

• Opensc (Opensc Project)
• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-8443
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310494
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00026.html