Vulnerabilities in the PDF distiller of the BlackBerry Attachment Service

Published: 2009-12-01. Last Updated: 2009-12-01 23:32:03 UTC
by Chris Carboni (Version: 1)
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Brian and Francois let us know about a new vulnerability in the  PDF distiller of the BlackBerry Attachment Service for the Blackberry Enterprise Server.

"Multiple security vulnerabilities exist in the PDF distiller of some released versions of the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. These vulnerabilities could enable a malicious individual to send an email message containing a specially crafted PDF file, which when opened for viewing on a BlackBerry smartphone that is associated with a user account on a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, could cause memory corruption and possibly lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition or arbitrary code execution on the computer that hosts the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of that BlackBerry Enterprise Server."

The RIM announcement can be found here, and a brief US-CERT announcement is posted here.

Christopher Carboni - Handler On Duty

Keywords: Blackberry PDF
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No fix is currently posted by BlackBerry. I found the KB article, but the link to the fix does not actually contain the fix. I called BlackBerry and was told it should be posted in the next few days.

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