PCSC-Lite could be made to crash or run programs if it accessed a special smart card.
Rafael Dominguez Vega discovered that PCSC-Lite incorrectly handled smart cards with malformed ATR messages. An attacker having physical access could exploit this with a special smart card and cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.
27 April 2011
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
PCSC-Lite could be made to crash or run programs if it accessed a special smart card.
Rafael Dominguez Vega discovered that PCSC-Lite incorrectly handled smart cards with malformed ATR messages. An attacker having physical access could exploit this with a special smart card and cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart smart card applications to make all the necessary changes.
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