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Debian: DSA-1946-1 Critical: Belpic Remote Certificate Validation Issue

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Calendar Grey December 5, 2009
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Enhance belpic packages to address cryptographic vulnerability impacting certificate verification in accordance with Debian notice.
It was discovered that belpic, the belgian eID PKCS11 library, does not properly check the result of an OpenSSL function for verifying cryptographic signatures, which could be used...

Summary


For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.9-7.etch.1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6.0-6, which was already included in the lenny release.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.0-6.


We recommend that you upgrade your belpic packages.


Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Debian (oldstable)
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Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powe...

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