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RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug

By | July 22, 2008, 1:54pm PDT

Summary: Just a quick note to update a story I wrote last week on an unpatched remote execution vulnerability affecting BlackBerry business users: Research in Motion (RIM) has finally shipped patches to cover the issue, which affects the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. From the alert: A security vulnerability exists in the PDF distiller of [...]

RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bugJust a quick note to update a story I wrote last week on an unpatched remote execution vulnerability affecting BlackBerry business users:

Research in Motion (RIM) has finally shipped patches to cover the issue, which affects the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

From the alert:

A security vulnerability exists in the PDF distiller of some released versions of the BlackBerry Attachment Service. This vulnerability 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, could cause memory corruption and possibly lead to arbitrary code execution on the computer that the BlackBerry Attachment Service runs on.

[ SEE: Unpatched code execution bug haunts BlackBerry ]

The bug carries a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score of 9.0.

The company is urging all users to upgrade immediately  to BlackBerry Enterprise Server software version 4.1 Service Pack 6 (4.1.6).  An interim security software update that patches the flaw in earlier affected versions of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Professional Software is also available.

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Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company's online community initiative around secure content management technologies.

Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.

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RE: RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug
ZDNET_guest666 23rd Jul 2008
Should've read "ZDNet finally posts news of Blackberry bug fix" Haha
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This article is almost a week late.....(Finally)
dunn@... 23rd Jul 2008
You write this article on July 22nd and I quote from the article:
"Research in Motion (RIM) has finally shipped patches to cover the issue, which affects the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server."

Your article does a great dis-service to the folks at RIM since both an interim fix and the unaffaected Service Pack 6 for 4.1 for Exchange have been out since July 17th.

I would not take exception to this article and always read them but your statement that "Research in Motion (RIM) has finally shipped patches to cover the issue..." is inaccurate by almost a week.

We have slightly over 300 BES users and when RIM or a third party identify issues RIM is usually quicker than most companies to supply fixes, patches, and service packs than most other companies (subliminal: Microsoft, Apple, REAL).

This article should have appeared last Friday the 18th but we're all glad that you "Finally" got around to noticing that the fix is out, too bad you didn't take notice of when it was out.
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RE: RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug
ZDNET_guest666 23rd Jul 2008
Should've read "ZDNet finally posts news of Blackberry bug fix" Haha

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