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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

– Impacted products: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on
client.
– Provenance: intranet client.
– Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
– Creation date: 04/11/2020.

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker can create a memory leak via sc_context_create() of
OpenSC, in order to trigger a denial of service.

ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN

https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/OpenSC-memory-leak-via-sc-context-create-33804