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TITLE:
PCSC-Lite Insecure Directory Permissions

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35500

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35500/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in PCSC-Lite, which can
potentially be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).

The security issue is caused due to pcscd creating the directory
"/var/run/pcscd.events/" with insecure permissions, which can e.g. be
exploited to cause a DoS.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repository.
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pcsclite/trunk/PCSC/src/pcscdaemon.c?r1=4213&r2=4237

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Tomas Mraz in a Red Hat bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Red Hat:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503211

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