Fedora 10 FEDORA-2009-4919 Critical: opensc pkcs11-tool Issue
fedora
May 29, 2009
A minor update fixing security problem within pkcs11-tool command
Summary
OpenSC is a package for for accessing smart card devices. Basic
functionality (e.g. SELECT FILE, READ BINARY) should work on any ISO
7816-4 compatible smart card. Encryption and decryption using private
keys on the smart card is possible with PKCS #15 compatible cards,
such as the FINEID (Finnish Electronic IDentity) card. Swedish Posten
eID cards have also been confirmed to work.
Update Information:
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Mon May 11 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 0.11.8-1 - new upstream version - fixes security issue * Fri Feb 27 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 0.11.7-1 - new upstream version - fixes CVE-2009-0368 * Thu Feb 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.11.6-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild * Thu Jan 15 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 0.11.6-2 - Add explicit requires for pcsc-lite-libs. Dlopen libpcsclite with the full soname.
References
[ 1 ] Bug #499862 - opensec: insecure public exponent in opensc 0.11.7
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499862
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update opensc' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .
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Name: opensc
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 0.11.8
Release: 1.fc10
URL: Summary : Smart card library and applications
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