| Name | CVE-2024-8443 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| opensc (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 0.16.0-3+deb8u3 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 0.16.0-3+deb9u2 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 0.19.0-1+deb10u3 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 0.21.0-1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 0.23.0-0.3+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 0.25.1-2 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| opensc | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| opensc | source | stretch | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| opensc | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
Notes
[bookworm] - opensc <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - opensc <postponed> (Minor issue, revisit when fixed upstream)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2310494
[buster] - opensc <postponed> (Minor issue, revist when fixed upstream)