6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
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.