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HistoryNov 07, 2007 - 12:00 a.m.

(RHSA-2007:0631) Low: coolkey security and bug fix update

2007-11-0700:00:00
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coolkey contains the driver support for the CoolKey and Common Access Card
(CAC) Smart Card products. The CAC is used by the U.S. Government.

Steve Grubb discovered a flaw in the way coolkey created a temporary
directory. A local attacker could perform a symlink attack and cause
arbitrary files to be overwritten. (CVE-2007-4129)

In addition, the updated packages contain fixes for the following bugs in
the CAC Smart Card support:

  • CAC Smart Cards can have from 1 to 3 certificates. The coolkey driver,
    however, was not recognizing cards if they had less than 3 certificates.

  • logging into a CAC Smart Card token with a new application would cause
    other, already authenticated, applications to lose their login status
    unless the Smart Card was then removed from the reader and re-inserted.

All CAC users should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these
issues.