CVE-2008-3972

NameCVE-2008-3972
Descriptionpkcs15-tool in OpenSC before 0.11.6 does not apply security updates to a smart card unless the card's label matches the "OpenSC" string, which might allow physically proximate attackers to exploit vulnerabilities that the card owner expected were patched, as demonstrated by exploitation of CVE-2008-2235.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1627-2

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
opensc (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)0.16.0-3+deb8u3fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch0.16.0-3+deb9u2fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)0.19.0-1+deb10u3fixed
bullseye0.21.0-1fixed
bookworm0.23.0-0.3+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie0.25.1-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
openscsourceetch0.11.1-2etch2DSA-1627-2
openscsource(unstable)0.11.4-5

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