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Fedora 24: 2017-8311440c55 Moderate: pcsc-lite Use-After-Free

fedora
Calendar Grey January 13, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Uncover the new Fedora release for pcsc-lite tackling urgent vulnerabilities in smart card interactions.
New upstream release

Summary

The purpose of PC/SC Lite is to provide a Windows(R) SCard interface

in a very small form factor for communicating to smartcards and

readers. PC/SC Lite uses the same winscard API as used under

Windows(R). This package includes the PC/SC Lite daemon, a resource

manager that coordinates communications with smart card readers and

smart cards that are connected to the system, as well as other command

line tools.

Update Information:

New upstream release

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Fedora pcsc-lite use after free smart card framework

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1410074 - CVE-2016-10109 pcsc-lite: Use-after-free of cardsList due to SCardReleaseContext invocations https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410074

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade pcsc-lite' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Name: pcsc-lite
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 1.8.20
Release: 1.fc24
URL: Summary : PC/SC Lite smart card framework and applications

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update Fedora pcsc-lite use after free smart card framework

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