CVE-2019-15946

Publication date 5 September 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.4 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

OpenSC before 0.20.0-rc1 has an out-of-bounds access of an ASN.1 Octet string in asn1_decode_entry in libopensc/asn1.c.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
opensc 23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan Ignored end of life
19.04 disco Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.17.0-3ubuntu0.1~esm1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.15.0-1ubuntu1+esm1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
opensc

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.4 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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