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RIM Patches PDF Attachment Vulnerability
Techtree News Staff, Jul 23, 2008 1720 hrs ISTIn a pro-active move, RIM has patched a PDF parsing-related vulnerability in their BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
In a pro-active move, RIM recently announced that it has managed to patch a vulnerability in their BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Once the PDF parsing-related vulnerability was identified, it took no time to have the hole plugged.
The security hole would have given hackers access to the Enterprise Server by tricking RIM BlackBerry email users into opening a malicious PDF email attachment, potentially leading to a crash of the entire server. Server crashes are nothing new for RIM. Back in September-October 2007, the BlackBerry servers had crashed twice in as many months prompting analysts to question the security and stability of the Enterprise Server.
Since then it had been an uneventful 2008,till this flaw was spotted. RIM has confirmed that only BlackBerry server versions 4.1.3 and 4.1.5 were affected by this security hole. Enterprise Server version 4.1.6 for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino was apparently not affected by the flaw. The security patches have been issued to BlackBerry Enterprise server customers.
The statement added that there have been no reports yet of any actual exploitation of this vulnerability and since the patch has already been applied, this should not be a major cause of concern.
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