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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-19479

An issue was discovered in OpenSC through 0.19.0 and 0.20.x through 0.20.0-rc3. libopensc/card-setcos.c has an incorrect read operation during parsing of a SETCOS file attribute.

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CVE-2019-19479

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-setcos.c has an incorrect read operation during parsing of a SETCOS file attribute.

osv:CVE-2019-19479
Complete source record
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