DSA-2059-1 pcsc-lite -- buffer overflow

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2010-0407  

It was discovered that PCSCD, a daemon to access smart cards, was vulnerable to a buffer overflow allowing a local attacker to elevate his privileges to root. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.102-1+lenny1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.4-1. We recommend that you upgrade your pcsc-lite package.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2059-1 pcsc-lite -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
10 Jun 2010
Affected Packages:
pcsc-lite
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-0407.
More information:

It was discovered that PCSCD, a daemon to access smart cards, was vulnerable to a buffer overflow allowing a local attacker to elevate his privileges to root.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.102-1+lenny1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pcsc-lite package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/pcsc-lite_1.4.102-1+lenny1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/pcsc-lite_1.4.102.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/pcsc-lite_1.4.102-1+lenny1.dsc
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/pcscd_1.4.102-1+lenny1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite-dev_1.4.102-1+lenny1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite1_1.4.102-1+lenny1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite1_1.4.102-1+lenny1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/pcscd_1.4.102-1+lenny1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite-dev_1.4.102-1+lenny1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/pcscd_1.4.102-1+lenny1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite-dev_1.4.102-1+lenny1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite1_1.4.102-1+lenny1_arm.deb
ARM EABI:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite-dev_1.4.102-1+lenny1_armel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite1_1.4.102-1+lenny1_armel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/pcscd_1.4.102-1+lenny1_armel.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/pcscd_1.4.102-1+lenny1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite-dev_1.4.102-1+lenny1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite1_1.4.102-1+lenny1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite-dev_1.4.102-1+lenny1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite1_1.4.102-1+lenny1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/pcscd_1.4.102-1+lenny1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite1_1.4.102-1+lenny1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/pcscd_1.4.102-1+lenny1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite-dev_1.4.102-1+lenny1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/pcscd_1.4.102-1+lenny1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite1_1.4.102-1+lenny1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite-dev_1.4.102-1+lenny1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/pcscd_1.4.102-1+lenny1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite1_1.4.102-1+lenny1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite-dev_1.4.102-1+lenny1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite1_1.4.102-1+lenny1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/pcscd_1.4.102-1+lenny1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite-dev_1.4.102-1+lenny1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/pcscd_1.4.102-1+lenny1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite1_1.4.102-1+lenny1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite-dev_1.4.102-1+lenny1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite-dev_1.4.102-1+lenny1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite1_1.4.102-1+lenny1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcsc-lite/pcscd_1.4.102-1+lenny1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.