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Fedora 40: FEDORA-2024-3dbc3e8105 Critical: opensc Memory Issue

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora Patch Alert: OpenSC upgrade resolves significant memory flaw impacting the security of smart card functionality.
New upstream release with security fixes for CVE-2023-5992 and CVE-2024-1454

Summary

OpenSC provides a set of libraries and utilities to work with smart cards. Its

main focus is on cards that support cryptographic operations, and facilitate

their use in security applications such as authentication, mail encryption and

digital signatures. OpenSC implements the PKCS#11 API so applications

supporting this API (such as Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird) can use it. On

the card OpenSC implements the PKCS#15 standard and aims to be compatible with

every software/card that does so, too.

Update Information:

New upstream release with security fixes for CVE-2023-5992 and CVE-2024-1454

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue security update Fedora memory issue smart card opensc

Change Log

* Thu Mar 7 2024 Veronika Hanulikova - 0.25.0-1 - New upstream release (#2265003), fixes CVE-2023-5992 and CVE-2024-1454 (#2263930)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2263929 - CVE-2024-1454 opensc: Memory use after free in AuthentIC driver when updating token info https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263929

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-3dbc3e8105' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: opensc
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 0.25.0
Release: 1.fc40
URL: https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/wiki
Summary: Smart card library and applications

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue security update Fedora memory issue smart card opensc

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