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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-4778

Original release date:04/21/2010

Last revised:04/22/2010

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the PDF distiller in the Attachment Service component in Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) software 4.1.3 through 4.1.7 and 5.0.0, and BlackBerry Professional Software 4.1.4, allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted .pdf file attachment, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-3246, CVE-2009-0176, CVE-2009-0219, CVE-2009-2643, and CVE-2009-2646.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:9.3 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 10.0

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service

Per: http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB19860 '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.'

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-3372

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3372

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB19860

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB19860

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1023258

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023258

External Source: BID