Debian 5.0 DSA-2059-1 Critical: pcsc-lite Buffer Overflow Attack
debian
June 10, 2010
It was discovered that PCSCD, a daemon to access smart cards, was vulnerable to a buffer overflow allowing a local attacker to elevate his privileges to root
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Summary
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version
1.4.102-1+lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.5.4-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your pcsc-lite package.
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 5.0 alias lenny
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 13669 57f321f638760ed9d4ffa8e5d20b7a3f
Size/MD5 checksum: 643165 bcfa5dd5d76b3020f94b029da764d288
Size/MD5 checksum: 1269 6cc38279a2aa18de8e45de59dccf535f
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 84574 55f245ccb1f080a244c...
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