CVE-2010-4531
EPSS 0.28%pcsc-lite - buffer overflow
Published: 1/18/2011Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4531
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the ATRDecodeAtr function in the Answer-to-Reset (ATR) Handler (atrhandler.c) for pcscd in PCSC-Lite 1.5.3, and possibly other 1.5.x and 1.6.x versions, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a smart card with an ATR message containing a long attribute value.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/pcsc-litefrom 0, < 1.5.5-4
- Debian/pcsc-litefrom 0, < 1.4.102-1+lenny4