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Re: Siemens *35 and 45 series phones SMS Danial of Service

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Hofmeister)
Tue Mar 4 13:24:03 2003

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Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 01:33:10 +0100
From: Andreas Hofmeister <andi@solutions.pyramid.de>
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To: Jan Niehusmann <jan@gondor.com>
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Jan Niehusmann wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 01:06:43AM -0000, subj subj wrote:
>  
>
>> To vulnerability are subject: All versions siemens *35 and *45.
>>
<snip>

> the message can be read by using
>'edit message' instead of 'read message', and it can be deleted without
>problems.
>
>So while this obviously is a bug, it can hardly be called a DoS.
>

An S35 locks up *completly* when one attemps to read the message - 
worse: you had to read the message (wich is not possible) before you 
could delete it, there is no edit option in the message list.  Regarding 
the S35 it really is a DoS.

Ciao
  Andreas




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