Symbian S60 - Malformed SMS/MMS Remote Denial of Service

Author: Tobias Engel
type: dos
platform: hardware
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date_added: 2008-12-30 
date_updated: 2014-04-04 
verified: 1 
codes: OSVDB-51147 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33072/info

Symbian S60 is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability.

Attackers can exploit this issue to prevent users from sending or receiving SMS or MMS messages.

This issue affects handsets using Symbian S60.

The following example message is available:

"123456789@123456789.1234567890123 "