Title: Symbian S60 Malformed SMS/MMS Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Symbian S60 is an operating system for mobile phones.
Symbian S60 is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability when handling malformed SMS messages. Specifically, the issue occurs when devices with the Symbian S60 operating system try to display an overly large email address present in the 'from-address' field of an SMS or MSS message.
Attackers can exploit this issue to prevent users from sending or receiving SMS or MMS messages.
This issue affects handsets using Symbian S60.
Affected Products:
- Nokia Series 60 2.6
- Nokia Series 60 2.8
- Nokia Series 60 3.0
- Nokia Series 60 3.1
- Sony Ericsson UiQ
- Symbian S60
References:
- 25th Chaos Communication Congress: Security Nightmares 2009
- Nokia: Nokia Homepage
- Symbian: Symbian Homepage
- Tobias Engel: Remote SMS/MMS Denial of Service for Nokia S60 phones
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