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Fedora 11: FEDORA-2009-4892 Minor: OpenSC pkcs11-tool Security Issue

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Calendar Grey May 29, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An update for Fedora 11 concerning opensc fixes a vulnerability in the pkcs11-tool utility, improving the functionality of smart card interactions.

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:

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue fedora command fix smart card opensc

Change Log

* Mon May 11 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 0.11.8-1 - new upstream version - fixes security issue

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 11
Version: 0.11.8
Release: 1.fc11
URL: Summary : Smart card library and applications

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