RIM Cautions Blackberry Users on PDF Flaw

RIM Cautions Blackberry Users on PDF Flaw

Research in Motion has revealed flaws plaguing its BlackBerry Attachment Service, which enable crooks to remotely launch a code and manipulate a BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The firm discovered vulnerabilities in the PDF distiller of the Attahment Service.
 

In a security advisory, RIM stated, "These vulnerabilities could enable a malicious individual to send an email containing a specially crafted PDF file which, when opened for viewing on a BlackBerry smartphone, could cause memory corruption and possibly lead to arbitrary code execution on the computer that hosts the BlackBerry Attachment Service."

 

RIM has released a temporary update that patches these flaws. The company has notified users to disable PDF fiile processing on the server while final security updates are not released.