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opensc — security advisory
src/tools/pkcs11-tool.c in pkcs11-tool in OpenSC 0.11.7, when used with unspecified third-party PKCS#11 modules, generates RSA keys with incorrect public exponents, which allows attackers to read the cleartext form of messages that were intended to be encrypted.
- Products
- opensc
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.11.8
- CVEs
- CVE-2009-1603
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
src/tools/pkcs11-tool.c in pkcs11-tool in OpenSC 0.11.7, when used with unspecified third-party PKCS#11 modules, generates RSA keys with incorrect public exponents, which allows attackers to read the cleartext form of messages that were intended to be encrypted.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1603
opensc
Fixed versions: 0.11.8
opensc
Fixed versions: 0.11.8
opensc
Fixed versions: 0.11.8
Complete source record
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