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Gentoo: GLSA-200908-01 Normal: OpenSC Cryptographic Issues

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Calendar Grey August 1, 2009
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Various vulnerabilities in OpenSC compromise data security and encryption processes. Upgrade to release 0.11.8 at once to safeguard your infrastructures.
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in OpenSC.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200908-01 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: OpenSC: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: August 01, 2009 Bugs: #260514, #269920 ID: 200908-01

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities were found in OpenSC.
Background ========= OpenSC provides a set of libraries and utilities to access smart cards.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-libs/opensc < 0.11.8 >= 0.11.8
========== Multiple vulnerabilities were found in OpenSC:
* b.badrignans discovered that OpenSC incorrectly initialises private data objects (CVE-2009-0368).
* Miquel Comas Marti discovered that src/tools/pkcs11-tool.c in pkcs1...

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