CVE-2024-45618

A vulnerability was found in pkcs15-init in OpenSC. An attacker could use a crafted USB Device or Smart Card, which would present the system with a specially crafted response to APDUs. Insufficient or missing checking of return values of functions leads to unexpected work with variables that have not been initialized.

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Matteo Marini (Sapienza University of Rome) for reporting this issue.

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