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CVE-2019-16058

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-09-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An issue was discovered in the pam_p11 component 0.2.0 and 0.3.0 for OpenSC. If a smart card creates a signature with a length longer than 256 bytes, this triggers a buffer overflow. This may be the case for RSA keys with 4096 bits depending on the signature scheme.

Affected products

• OpenSC: 0.2.0, 0.3.0

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/12/1
• https://github.com/OpenSC/pam_p11/commit/d150b60e1e14c261b113f55681419ad1dfa8a76c
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/12/1
• https://github.com/OpenSC/pam_p11/commit/d150b60e1e14c261b113f55681419ad1dfa8a76c

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