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Medium ALSA-2024:0967 1 CVE

Moderate: opensc security update

Published Feb 26, 2024 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

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: Side-channel leaks while stripping encryption PKCS#1 padding (CVE-2023-5992)

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.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 opensc 0.20.0-8.el8_9

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5992
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2248685
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-0967.html