[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: pcsc-lite-1.5.2-4.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-10014
2010-06-16 16:59:42
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Name        : pcsc-lite
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 1.5.2
Release     : 4.fc12
URL         : http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/
Summary     : PC/SC Lite smart card framework and applications
Description :
The purpose of PC/SC Lite is to provide a Windows(R) SCard interface
in a very small form factor for communicating to smartcards and
readers.  PC/SC Lite uses the same winscard API as used under
Windows(R).  This package includes the PC/SC Lite daemon, a resource
manager that coordinates communications with smart card readers and
smart cards that are connected to the system, as well as other command
line tools.

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Update Information:

An update to address a buffer overflow which could allow a local attacker to
elevate privileges.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jun 15 2010 Kalev Lember <kalev at smartlink.ee> - 1.5.2-4
- Patch for CVE-2010-0407
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #596426 - CVE-2010-0407 pcsc-lite: Privilege escalation via specially-crafted client to PC/SC Smart Card daemon messages
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596426
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update pcsc-lite' 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
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