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Debian: DSA-1627-1 Critical: OpenSC CardOS PIN Change Risk

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1627-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst August 04, 2008
Chaskiel M Grundman discovered that opensc, a library and utilities to handle smart cards, would initialise smart cards with the Siemens CardOS M4 card operating system without p...

Summary


This vulnerability affects only smart cards and USB crypto tokens based on
Siemens CardOS M4, and within that group only those that were initialised
with OpenSC. Users of other smart cards and USB crypto tokens, or cards
that have been initialised with some software other than OpenSC, are not
affected.

After upgrading the package, running
pkcs15-tool -T
will show you whether the card is fine or vulnerable. If the card is
vulnerable, you need to update the security setting using:
pkcs15-tool -T -U

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.11.1-2etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.11.4-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your opensc 0.11.1-2etch1 package and check
your card(s) with the command described above.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------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...

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