RIM BlackBerry Professional Software up to 4.1.4 PDF Distiller memory corruption

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A vulnerability has been found in RIM BlackBerry Professional Software up to 4.1.4 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the component PDF Distiller. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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 5.0 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 and CVE-2009-0219.

The bug was discovered 05/26/2009. The weakness was shared 05/26/2009 (Website). The advisory is shared at vupen.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2009-2643 since 07/28/2009. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 38947 (BlackBerry Enterprise Server Attachment Service Unspecified Vulnerabilities (KB18327)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context l.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (50755) and Tenable (38947).

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 38947
Nessus Name: BlackBerry Enterprise Server Attachment Service Unspecified Vulnerabilities (KB18327)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: rim.com

Advisory: vupen.com⛔
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2009-2643 (🔍)
X-Force: 50755
SecurityTracker: 1022295
Vulnerability Center: 22210 - BlackBerry Enterprise Server PDF Distiller Remote Code Execution with System Privileges, Critical
SecurityFocus: 35102 - BlackBerry Attachment Service PDF Distiller Multiple Unspecified Security Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 35254 - BlackBerry Products PDF Distiller Unspecified Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 54767 - BlackBerry Multiple Products PDF Distiller Multiple Unspecified Issues
Vupen: ADV-2009-1429

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Created: 03/18/2015 15:15
Updated: 09/05/2019 08:52
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (79), 09/05/2019 08:52 (2)
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