Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in libopensc in OpenSC 0.11.13 and earlier allow physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long serial-number field on a smart card, related to (1) card-acos5.c, (2) card-atrust-acos.c, and (3) card-starcos.c.

Specially crafted smart cards could cause a buffer overflow in opensc (CVE-2010-4523).

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201401-18 (OpenSC: Arbitrary code execution)

    Multiple stack-based buffer overflow errors have been discovered in       OpenSC.
  Impact :

    A physically proximate attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code       using a specially crafted smart card.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in opensc :

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in libopensc in OpenSC 0.11.13 and earlier allow physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long serial-number field on a smart card, related to (1) card-acos5.c, (2) card-atrust-acos.c, and (3) card-starcos.c (CVE-2010-4523).

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The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Specially crafted smart cards could cause a buffer overflow in opensc.
(CVE-2010-4523)

Fixes CVE-2010-4523 - buffer overflow when some kinds of specially crafted rogue smart cards are used.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
75591	openSUSE Security Update : libopensc2 (openSUSE-SU-2011:0049-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
72073	GLSA-201401-18 : OpenSC: Arbitrary code execution	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
53748	openSUSE Security Update : libopensc2 (openSUSE-SU-2011:0049-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
53673	openSUSE Security Update : libopensc2 (openSUSE-SU-2011:0049-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
51803	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : opensc (MDVSA-2011:011)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
51618	SuSE 11.1 Security Update : opensc (SAT Patch Number 3729)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
51409	Fedora 13 : opensc-0.11.13-6.fc13 (2010-19193)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
51408	Fedora 14 : opensc-0.11.13-6.fc14 (2010-19192)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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