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TITLE:
OpenSC Private Data Objects Security Bypass

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34052

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34052/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in OpenSC, which can be exploited
by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to OpenSC incorrectly initialising
private data objects. This can be exploited to access data objects
which were intended to be private via e.g. low level APDU commands.

NOTE: Reportedly, this only affects cards initialised with OpenSC.

The security issue is reported in versions after June 2007 and prior
to version 0.11.7

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.11.7.

NOTE: Cards which have been initialised with affected versions of
OpenSC need to be modified or re-initialised. See the vendor's
advisory for details.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits "b.badrignans".

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.opensc-project.org/security.html
http://www.opensc-project.org/pipermail/opensc-announce/2009-February/000023.html

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