Fedora 9: 2009-2268 Urgent: OpenSC Permission Vulnerabilities

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.

Security update fixing CVE-2008-3972, CVE-2008-2235, and CVE-2009-0368.

* Fri Feb 27 2009 Tomas Mraz - 0.11.7-1

- new upstream version - fixes CVE-2009-0368

* Thu Feb 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 0.11.6-3

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

* Thu Jan 15 2009 Tomas Mraz - 0.11.6-2

- Add explicit requires for pcsc-lite-libs. Dlopen libpcsclite with the full

soname.

* Tue Sep 2 2008 Tomas Mraz - 0.11.6-1

- Update to latest upstream, fixes CVE-2008-2235

* Thu Apr 10 2008 Hans de Goede - 0.11.4-5

- BuildRequire libassuan-devel instead of libassuan-static (bz 441812)

[ 1 ] Bug #487694 - CVE-2009-0368 opensc: insufficient access restrictions on private data

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487694

[ 2 ] Bug #457367 - CVE-2008-2235, CVE-2008-3972 opensc: incorrect initialization of Siemens CardOS M4 smart cards

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457367

su -c 'yum update opensc' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

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