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