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RIM warns of data leakage, denial-of-service vulnerability

By | July 14, 2011, 10:10am PDT

Summary: Research in Motion (RIM) has shipped a patch to cover a serious security vulnerability that could allow attackers to read files that contain only printable characters on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, including unencrypted text files.

Research in Motion (RIM) has shipped a patch to cover a serious security vulnerability that could allow attackers to read files that contain only printable characters on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, including unencrypted text files.

follow Ryan Naraine on twitterThe flaw, which may also allow denial-of-service attacks, is limited to the user permissions granted to the BlackBerry Administration API component, RIM said in an advisory.

Successful exploitation of this issue could allow information disclosure. Successful exploitation may also result in resource exhaustion and therefore could be leveraged as a partial denial of service (DoS).

RIM said issue affects the BlackBerry Administration Application Programming Interface (API) component within the BlackBerry Administration Service component of the following software versions:

  • BlackBerry Enterprise Server version 5.0.0 for Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise (with the BlackBerry® Administration API component installed as an option only)
  • BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express 5.0.0 for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino  (with the BlackBerry Administration API component installed as an option only)
  • BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express versions 5.0.1, 5.0.2 and 5.0.3 for Microsoft Exchange
  • BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express versions 5.0.2 and 5.0.3 for IBM Lotus Domino
  • BlackBerry Enterprise Server versions 5.0.1, 5.0.2 and 5.0.3 for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino
  • BlackBerry Enterprise Server versions 5.0.1 for GroupWise
The BlackBerry Device Software, Desktop Software and Internet Service are not affected by this vulnerability.  Patch information can be found in the RIM advisory.

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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 warns of data leakage, denial-of-service vulnerability
snoop0x7b 15th Jul
RIM already leaks data to foreign governments and the US government by agreeing to backdoor the communications. Having your email go through their servers for push notifications is NOT worth it.

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