Fedora 9 Update: opensc-0.11.8-1.fc9
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.
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-4883 2009-05-12 23:51:45 Name : opensc Product : Fedora 9 Version : 0.11.8 Release : 1.fc9 URL : Summary : Smart card library and applications Description : 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.
Change Log
* Mon May 11 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 0.11.8-1 - new upstream version - fixes security issue * Fri Feb 27 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 0.11.7-1 - new upstream version - fixes CVE-2009-0368 * Thu Feb 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.11.6-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild * Thu Jan 15 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 0.11.6-2 - Add explicit requires for pcsc-lite-libs. Dlopen libpcsclite with the full soname. * Tue Sep 2 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 0.11.6-1 - Update to latest upstream, fixes CVE-2008-2235 * Thu Apr 10 2008 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl> - 0.11.4-5 - BuildRequire libassuan-devel instead of libassuan-static (bz 441812)
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 .