CVE-2018-16426

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16426
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16426.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-16426
Downstream
BELL (1)
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
openSUSE (1)
RHSA (1)
SUSE (3)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (3)
Published
2018-09-04T00:29:01Z
Modified
2026-08-07T15:18:38Z
Severity
  • 4.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Endless recursion when handling responses from an IAS-ECC card in iasecc_select_file in libopensc/card-iasecc.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smartcards to hang or crash the opensc library using programs.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/opensc/opensc

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/opensc/opensc
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
eb60481f89526f34478e73815ca3bd5c0238c652
Fixed
03628449b75a93787eb2359412a3980365dda49b
Fixed
b5a6f9aa6e5a8d0d2e7344319650af7f37a68581
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:opensc_project:opensc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "0.18.0"
        }
    ],
    "source":  [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.12.2
0.12.2-rc1
0.13.0
0.13.0pre1
0.13.0rc1
0.14.0
0.14.0rc2
0.14.0rtm
0.15.0
0.16.0
0.17.0
0.17.0-rc1
0.17.0-rc2
0.18.0
0.18.0-rc1
0.18.0-rc2
v0.*
v0.12.2
v0.16.0-pre1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16426.json"
vanir_signatures 
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        },
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        "signature_type":  "Line",
        "signature_version":  "v1",
        "source":  "https://github.com/opensc/opensc/commit/03628449b75a93787eb2359412a3980365dda49b",
        "target":  {
            "file":  "src/libopensc/card-iasecc.c"
        }
    },
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        "digest":  {
            "function_hash":  "329899996166684623670025108497191726919",
            "length":  6798
        },
        "id":  "CVE-2018-16426-d1f99eb9",
        "signature_type":  "Function",
        "signature_version":  "v1",
        "source":  "https://github.com/opensc/opensc/commit/03628449b75a93787eb2359412a3980365dda49b",
        "target":  {
            "file":  "src/libopensc/card-iasecc.c",
            "function":  "iasecc_select_file"
        }
    }
]
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-08-07T15:18:38Z"