[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: opensc-0.11.8-1.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-4883
2009-05-12 23:51:45
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Name        : opensc
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 0.11.8
Release     : 1.fc9
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.

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Update Information:

A minor update fixing security problem within pkcs11-tool command.    http://www
.opensc-project.org/pipermail/opensc-announce/2009-May/000025.html
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ChangeLog:

* Mon May 11 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> - 0.11.8-1
- new upstream version - fixes security issue
* Fri Feb 27 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> - 0.11.7-1
- new upstream version - fixes CVE-2009-0368
* Thu Feb 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.11.6-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Jan 15 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> - 0.11.6-2
- Add explicit requires for pcsc-lite-libs. Dlopen libpcsclite with the full
  soname.
* Tue Sep  2 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> - 0.11.6-1
- Update to latest upstream, fixes CVE-2008-2235
* Thu Apr 10 2008 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> - 0.11.4-5
- BuildRequire libassuan-devel instead of libassuan-static (bz 441812)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #499862 - opensec: insecure public exponent in opensc 0.11.7
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499862
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update opensc' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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