UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6414

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6414
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6414.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6414
Upstream
Published
2017-03-15T14:59:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:46:12Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

Memory leak in the vcardapdunew function in card_7816.c in libcacard before 2.5.3 allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) via vectors related to allocating a new APDU object.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / libcacard

Package

Name
libcacard
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libcacard@1:2.5.0-2?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:2.*

1:2.5.0-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.5.0-2",
            "binary_name": "libcacard-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.5.0-2",
            "binary_name": "libcacard-tools"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.5.0-2",
            "binary_name": "libcacard0"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6414.json"