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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-19481

An issue was discovered in OpenSC through 0.19.0 and 0.20.x through 0.20.0-rc3. libopensc/card-cac1.c mishandles buffer limits for CAC certificates.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:35 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-19481

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Dec 2019, 23:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in OpenSC through 0.19.0 and 0.20.x through 0.20.0-rc3. libopensc/card-cac1.c mishandles buffer limits for CAC certificates.

osv:CVE-2019-19481
Complete source record
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      "references": [
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        "https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=18618",
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