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high 7.5

CVE-2016-10109 json

Use-after-free vulnerability in pcsc-lite before 1.8.20 allows a remote attackers to cause denial of service (crash) via a command that use…

published 2017-02-23 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-1300

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.0%
EPSS 4.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in pcsc-lite before 1.8.20 allows a remote attackers to cause denial of service (crash) via a command that uses "cardsList" after the handle has been released through the SCardReleaseContext function.

Patch / fix

  • pcsc-lite Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.8.20-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10109

  • pcsc-lite Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.8.10-1ubuntu1.1
  • pcsc-lite Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.8.14-1ubuntu1.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10109

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • pcsc-lite SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +6 more 1.8.10-6.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:0286-1

  • pcsclite Arch Linux 1.8.20-1

arch linux advisories AVG-126

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-10109 updated cvss 5.5

pcsc-lite: Use-after-free of cardsList due to SCardReleaseContext invocations

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 pcsc-lite, pcsc-lite-libs
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 pcsc-lite Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 pcsc-lite, pcsc-lite-libs
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.