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Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-4892 (opensc)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: opensc-0.11.8-1.fc11
Date:  Sat, 30 May 2009 02:27:18 +0000
Message-ID:  <20090530022718.56C4210F880@bastion2.fedora.phx.redhat.com>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-4892 2009-05-12 23:51:52 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : opensc Product : Fedora 11 Version : 0.11.8 Release : 1.fc11 URL : http://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/ 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: A minor update fixing security problem within pkcs11-tool command. http://www .opensc-project.org/pipermail/opensc-announce/2009-May/000025.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon May 11 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 0.11.8-1 - new upstream version - fixes security issue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #499862 - opensec: insecure public exponent in opensc 0.11.7 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499862 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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