Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Apple iPhone, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a memory corruption error when processing a malformed SMS message, which could be exploited to cause an unexpected service interruption or arbitrary code execution.

Affected Products

Apple iPhone OS versions 1.0 through 3.0

Solution

Upgrade to Apple iPhone OS version 3.0.1.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2105
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3754

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Charlie Miller (Independent Security Evaluators) and Collin Mulliner (Technical University Berlin).

ChangeLog

2009-08-03 : Initial release

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