CVE-2021-42779 (GCVE-0-2021-42779)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-18 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:45
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
A heap use after free issue was found in Opensc before version 0.22.0 in sc_file_valid.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CWE
Assigner
References
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