Bug 676678 (CVE-2019-6502)

Summary:	dev-libs/opensc-0.19.0: memleak in libopensc
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	psp <gentoo-bugzilla>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	alonbl, crypto+disabled
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-6502
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704216
Whiteboard:	B3 [noglsa cve]
Package list:	dev-libs/opensc-0.19.0	Runtime testing required:	---

Description psp 2019-01-29 01:18:10 UTC

sc_context_create in ctx.c in libopensc in OpenSC 0.19.0 has a memory leak, as demonstrated by a call from eidenv.

Comment 1 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure

2019-04-27 06:23:19 UTC

More information on the vulnerability here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1668933
https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/issues/1586

Comment 2 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-04-27 06:42:50 UTC

Having a leak in command-line tool just before exit is hardly a security issue, I am not even going to patch[1] it.

[1] https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/commit/0d7967549751b7032f22b437106b41444aff0ba9

Comment 3 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-04-27 14:41:03 UTC

(In reply to Alon Bar-Lev from comment #2)
> Having a leak in command-line tool just before exit is hardly a security
> issue, I am not even going to patch[1] it.
> 
> [1]
> https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/commit/
> 0d7967549751b7032f22b437106b41444aff0ba9

Agreed.

Even if the CVE authorities haven't done so yet... I am marking this as invalid, but I do expect MITRE and friends to do the same shortly.