CVE-2023-2977

A vulnerability was found in OpenSC. This issue causes a buffer overrun in the pkcs15 cardos_have_verifyrc_package. This flaw allows an attacker to supply a smart card package with a malformed ASN1 context. The cardos_have_verifyrc_package function scans the ASN1 buffer for two tags, where the remaining length is wrongly calculated due to a moved starting pointer, leading to a possible heap-based buffer out-of-bounds read. In cases where ASN is enabled while compiling, this problem causes a crash, and further information leaks or more damage is likely.

It was discovered that OpenSC did not correctly handle certain memory operations, which could lead to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. It was discovered that OpenSC did not correctly handle certain memory operations, which could lead to a stack buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.