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Bug 676678 (CVE-2019-6502) - dev-libs/opensc-0.19.0: memleak in libopensc
Summary: dev-libs/opensc-0.19.0: memleak in libopensc
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: CVE-2019-6502
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename...
Whiteboard: B3 [noglsa cve]
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Reported: 2019-01-29 01:18 UTC by psp
Modified: 2019-12-29 22:05 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Package list:
dev-libs/opensc-0.19.0
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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 gentoo-dev 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.