CVE-2021-42778 (GCVE-0-2021-42778)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-18 16:20 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:45
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Summary
A heap double free issue was found in Opensc before version 0.22.0 in sc_pkcs15_free_tokeninfo.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a opensc Affected: opensc 0.22.0
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