CVE-2009-4902

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-06-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the MSGFunctionDemarshall function in winscard_svc.c in the PC/SC Smart Card daemon (aka PCSCD) in MUSCLE PCSC-Lite 1.5.4 and earlier might allow local users to gain privileges via crafted SCARD_CONTROL message data, which is improperly demarshalled. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-0407.

Affected products

Muscle Pcsc-Lite: through 1.5.4; 1.1.2-beta2, 1.1.2-beta3, 1.1.2-beta4, 1.1.2-beta5, 1.2.0, 1.2.0-rc1 (+28)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044124.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/042900.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-June/042921.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/40140
http://secunia.com/advisories/40239
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pcsclite/?sc=1&rev=4334
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2059
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40758
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1427
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1508
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596426
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044124.html

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