OpenSC is an open source smart card tools and middleware. Prior to version 0.27.0, an attacker with physical access to the computer at the time user or administrator uses a token can cause a stack-buffer-overflow WRITE in card-oberthur. The attack requires crafted USB device or smart card that would present the system with specially crafted responses to the APDUs. This issue has been patched in version 0.27.0.

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-de85b06438 advisory.

    New upstream release (#2442363) fixing various security issues

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-4440b00e25 advisory.

    New upstream release (#2442363) fixing various security issues:

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - OpenSC is an open source smart card tools and middleware. Prior to version 0.27.0, an attacker with     physical access to the computer at the time user or administrator uses a token can cause a stack-buffer-     overflow WRITE in card-oberthur. The attack requires crafted USB device or smart card that would present     the system with specially crafted responses to the APDUs. This issue has been patched in version 0.27.0.
    (CVE-2025-66215)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
307053	Fedora 42 : opensc (2026-de85b06438)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
305674	Fedora 43 : opensc (2026-4440b00e25)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
304364	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-66215	Nessus	Misc.	medium

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