RHSA-2023:7876 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for opensc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The OpenSC set of libraries and utilities provides support for working with smart cards. OpenSC focuses on cards that support cryptographic operations and enables their use for authentication, mail encryption, or digital signatures.

Security Fix(es):

• OpenSC: Potential PIN bypass when card tracks its own login state (CVE-2023-40660)
• OpenSC: multiple memory issues with pkcs15-init (enrollment tool) (CVE-2023-40661)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2240912 - CVE-2023-40660 OpenSC: Potential PIN bypass when card tracks its own login state
• BZ - 2240913 - CVE-2023-40661 OpenSC: multiple memory issues with pkcs15-init (enrollment tool)

CVEs

• CVE-2023-40660
• CVE-2023-40661

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate