CVE-2017-6414
Memory leak in the vcard_apdu_new 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
02 Description
Memory leak in the vcard_apdu_new 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.44% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 38.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-03-15 14:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 15:25Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-03-01
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-772Missing Release of Resource after Effective LifetimeBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- c515b2fbc40a241710653ec00da85963a3651b56c33dc3c21333b5f92e216edb
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com96541http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96541
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170301 CVE-2017-6414 Qemu: libcacard: host memory leakage while creating new APDUhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/01/11
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1427833
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2017:2408https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2408
- cgit.freedesktop.orghttps://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/libcacard/commit/?id=9113dc6a303604a2d9812ac70c17d076ef11886c
- cgit.freedesktop.orghttps://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/libcacard/tree/NEWS?id=aaa5251791bf0b1640afcba77a7d79ea23c42d53
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- libcacard Fixed in 1:2.5.0-3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- libcacard Fixed in 1:2.5.0-3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- libcacard Fixed in 1:2.5.0-3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- libcacard No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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