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>> Sony Ericsson Phones Bluetooth L2CAP Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : Sony Ericsson Phones Bluetooth L2CAP Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0478
CVE ID : CVE-2006-0671
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-02-08


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A vulnerability has been identified in various Sony Ericsson cell phones, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an error in the Bluetooth service that fails to properly handle malformed L2CAP (Logical Link Control and Adaptation Layer Protocol) packets containing specially crafted headers, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

Affected Products

Sony Ericsson K600i
Sony Ericsson V600i
Sony Ericsson W800i
Sony Ericsson T68i

Solution

Disable the Bluetooth service.
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0478
http://www.secuobs.com/news/05022006-bluetooth6.shtml
http://www.secuobs.com/news/05022006-bluetooth7.shtml

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Pierre Betouin (Infratech).

ChangeLog

2006-02-08 : Initial release
2006-02-10 : Updated References

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