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CVE-2016-10109
Use-after-free vulnerability in pcsc-lite before 1.8.20 allows a remote attackers to cause denial of service (crash) via a command that…
High7.5EPSS 4.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in pcsc-lite before 1.8.20 allows a remote attackers to cause denial of service (crash) via a command that uses "cardsList" after the handle has been released through the SCardReleaseContext function.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 51 days later
· 51 days later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.0% · top 9.3% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- GLSA-201702-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- USN-3176-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [pcsclite-muscle] 20161226 New pcsc-lite 1.8.20 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-3752 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 95263 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170103 Re: CVE Request: pcsc-lite use-after-free and double-free (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://salsa.debian.org/rousseau/PCSC/-/commit/697fe05967af7ea215bcd5d5774be587780c9e22 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20210628 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20210629 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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