Security advisory
A vulnerbility was found in OpenSC. This security flaw cause a buffer overrun vulnerability in pkcs15 cardos_have_verifyrc_package. The attacker can supply a smart card package with malformed ASN1 context. The cardos_have_verifyrc_package function scans the ASN1 buffer for 2 tags, where remaining length is wrongly caculated due to moved starting pointer. This leads to possible heap-based buffer oob read. In cases where ASAN is enabled while compiling this causes a crash. Further info leak or more damage is possible.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2023-2977
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 01:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A vulnerbility was found in OpenSC. This security flaw cause a buffer overrun vulnerability in pkcs15 cardos_have_verifyrc_package. The attacker can supply a smart card package with malformed ASN1 context. The cardos_have_verifyrc_package function scans the ASN1 buffer for 2 tags, where remaining length is wrongly caculated due to moved starting pointer. This leads to possible heap-based buffer oob read. In cases where ASAN is enabled while compiling this causes a crash. Further info leak or more damage is possible.
osv:CVE-2023-2977
Complete source record
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"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/12/msg00026.html",
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"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LAR54OV6EHA56B4XJF6RNPQ4HJ2ITU66/",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2977",
"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2211088",
"https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/issues/2785",
"https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/pull/2787",
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