How severe is CVE-2018-16421?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of MEDIUM with a CVSS score of 6.6 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2018-16421?

This is classified as CWE-119, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2018-16421

MEDIUM Year: 2018

CVSS v3 Score

6.6

Medium

CVSS v2 Score

4.6

Medium

Weakness Type

CWE-119

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Vulnerability Description

Several buffer overflows when handling responses from a CAC Card in cac_get_serial_nr_from_CUID in libopensc/card-cac.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smartcards to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

CVE-2015-7085

MEDIUM

CVSS:6.6(Medium)

Apple QuickTime before 7.7.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted movie file, a different vulnerabilit...

CWE-1192015