PT-2016-4579 · Muscle+3 · Pcsc-Lite+3

Peter Wu · Published 2016-12-31 · Updated 2021-06-29 · CVE-2016-10109

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions pcsc-lite versions prior to 1.8.20

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) through a command that uses cardsList after the handle has been released through the SCardReleaseContext function. This is a result of a use-after-free vulnerability.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.8.20, update to version 1.8.20 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the cardsList command to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

DoS

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1098

CVE-2016-10109

DLA-778-1

DSA-3752-1

MGASA-2017-0026

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11155-1

SUSE-SU-2017:0286-1

SUSE-SU-2017_0286-1

USN-3176-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Pcsc-Lite

References · 27

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10109 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3176-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10109 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3752 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3752-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10109 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pcsclite-muscle/Week-of-Mon-20161226/000779.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10109 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:0286-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0026 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10109 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3176-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0026.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10109 · Vendor Advisory