National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-5493

Overview

The SMS handler for Windows Mobile 2005 Pocket PC Phone edition allows attackers to hide the sender field of an SMS message via a malformed WAP PUSH message that causes the PDU to be incorrectly decoded.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/research/SYMSA-2007-011.txt

Hyperlink:http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/research/SYMSA-2007-011.txt

External Source: BID

Name: 26091

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26091

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20071017 SYMSA-2007-011: Microsoft WM5 PocketPC Phone Ed SMS Handler Issue

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/482446/100/0/threaded

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 45517

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/45517

External Source: XF

Name: win-mobile-sms-obfuscation(37249)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/37249

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018832

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1018832