Quoting from bug 596426 comment 43:

The patch pcsc-lite-1.5.2-overflow.patch in pcsc-lite-1.5.2-6.el6.src.rpm
breaks SCardGetAttrib on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. It will always return
SCARD_E_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER regardless of buffer size.

Case 1. If buffer is less than or equal to MAX_BUFFER_SIZE the patched in check
in MSGFunctionDemarshall will fail with SCARD_E_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER.

case SCARD_GET_ATTRIB:
  gsStr = ((getset_struct *) msgStruct->data);
  rv = MSGCheckHandleAssociation(gsStr->hCard, dwContextIndex);
  if (rv != 0) return rv;

  /* avoids buffer overflow */
  if (gsStr->cbAttrLen <= sizeof(gsStr->pbAttr))
  {
      gsStr->rv = SCARD_E_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER ;
      break;
  } 

Case 2. If buffer is larger than MAX_BUFFER_SIZE the call fail in
winscard_clnt.c:SCardGetSetAttrib instead. The result is
SCARD_E_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER. (This case is not affected by the patch)

Case 3. If buffer is set to NULL to query required buffer
size. SCardGetSetAttrib will set buffer size to MAX_BUFFER_SIZE and the call
will fail as in case 1.

Not sure if this is the right bug to report this in or what the buffer size check is supposed to achieve but it will definitely make SCardGetAttrib defunct.