Fedora 11 : mingw32-opensc-0.11.8-1.fc11 (2009-4967)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38994

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

CVE-2009-1603 A minor update fixing security problem within pkcs11-tool command. http://www.opensc-project.org/pipermail/opensc- announce/2009-May/000025.html 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. This is the MinGW cross-compiled Windows library.

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.

Solution

Update the affected mingw32-opensc package.

See Also

http://www.opensc-project.org/pipermail/opensc-

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499862

http://www.nessus.org/u?762bb93d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38994

File Name: fedora_2009-4967.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/3/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mingw32-opensc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1603

CWE: 310

FEDORA: 2009-4967