[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: mingw32-opensc-0.11.8-1.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-4967
2009-05-14 02:31:56
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Name        : mingw32-opensc
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 0.11.8
Release     : 1.fc11
URL         : http://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/
Summary     : MingGW Windows OpenSC library
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.

This is the MinGW cross-compiled Windows library.

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Update Information:

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.
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ChangeLog:

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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 mingw32-opensc' 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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