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pcsc-lite: privilege escalation

Package(s):pcsc-lite CVE #(s):CVE-2010-0407
Created:June 11, 2010 Updated:September 24, 2010
Description: From the Debian advisory:

It was discovered that PCSCD, a daemon to access smart cards, was vulnerable to a buffer overflow allowing a local attacker to elevate his privileges to root.

Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2010:189-1 2010-09-24
Mandriva MDVSA-2010:189 2010-09-24
SUSE SUSE-SR:2010:017 2010-09-21
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2010:0612-1 2010-09-15
SUSE SUSE-SR:2010:015 2010-08-17
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2010:0500-1 2010-08-12
Ubuntu USN-969-1 2010-08-05
CentOS CESA-2010:0533 2010-07-15
Fedora FEDORA-2010-10764 2010-07-06
Debian DSA-2059-2 2010-07-04
Fedora FEDORA-2010-10014 2010-06-16
Fedora FEDORA-2010-9995 2010-06-16
Red Hat RHSA-2010:0533-01 2010-07-14
Debian DSA-2059-1 2010-06-10
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