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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 10:39:40 -0500
From: <cve-assign@...re.org>
To: <peter@...ensteyn.nl>
CC: <cve-assign@...re.org>, <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>,
	<ludovic.rousseau@...e.fr>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: pcsc-lite use-after-free and double-free

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> The SCardReleaseContext function normally releases resources associated with the
> given handle (including "cardsList") and clients should cease using this handle.
> A malicious client can however make the daemon invoke SCardReleaseContext and
> continue issuing other commands that use "cardsList", resulting in a
> use-after-free.  When SCardReleaseContext is invoked multiple times, it
> additionally results in a double-free of "cardsList".
> 
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pcsclite-muscle/Week-of-Mon-20161226/000779.html
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pcsclite/PCSC.git/commit/?id=697fe05967af7ea215bcd5d5774be587780c9e22

>> 2016-12-30
>> To avoid this problem, destroy the list only when the client connection is terminated.

Use CVE-2016-10109.

(The double-free is not sufficiently independent of the use-after-free to
require two CVE IDs.)

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