RIM Fixes PDF & Attachment Vulnerabilty in BlackBerry Enterprise and Professional

By Editor Wireless and Mobile News on January 14, 2009 11:21 AM

Dear President-Elect Barack Obama,

The security flaw with PDF files and attachment services on BlackBerry enterprise services has been fixed by RIM. If you still want to keep your BlackBerry tell your IT staff to update and upgrade either the BlackBerry Enterprise Server or BlackBerry Professional Software.

Security vulnerabilities were found in the PDF distiller of some released versions of the BlackBerry Attachment Service. 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, could cause memory corruption and possibly lead to arbitrary code execution on the computer that hosts the BlackBerry Attachment Service.

Research In Motion (RIM) has issued an interim security software update that resolves the vulnerability in affected versions of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Professional Software.

To Download and install Interim Security Update 2 for the software version that you are running.

For BlackBerry Enterprise Server

Visit http://www.blackberry.com/go/serverdownloads to obtain Interim Security Update 2 for affected BlackBerry Enterprise Server software versions.

For BlackBerry Professional Software<

>Visit http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/downloads/#tab_professional to obtain Interim Security Update 2 for affected BlackBerry Professional Software versions.

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