Nokia phones vulnerability

Nokia exploit stops all inbound SMS

All Nokia phone users beware. Somebody just released a serious Nokia vulnerability today. By using a specially crafted SMS message, you can block the recipient from getting any future SMS messages. The attacker changes their Protocol Identifier to “Internet Electronic Mail” and then uses any email address 32 characters or more in their message. The recipient will receive no indication that they got the message and no other messages will be allowed until the phone is factory reset.  This affects many different varieties of S60 phones and no fix is known.

 

Emails can be sent via SMS by setting the messages Protocol Identifier

to “Internet Electronic Mail” and formatting the message like this:

<email-address><space><message body>

If such messages contain an <email-address> with more than 32

characters, S60 2.6, 2.8, 3.0 and 3.1 devices are not able to receive

other SMS or MMS messages anymore. 2.6 and 3.0 devices lock up after

only one message, 2.8 and 3.1 devices after 11 messages.

 

Affected models

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Nokia E90 Communicator

Nokia E71

Nokia E66

Nokia E51

Nokia N95 8GB

Nokia N95

Nokia N82

Nokia N81 8GB

Nokia N81

Nokia N76

Nokia 6290

Nokia 6124 classic

Nokia 6121 classic

Nokia 6120 classic

Nokia 6110 Navigator

Nokia 5700 XpressMusic

See the video here: https://berlin.ccc.de/~tobias/cos/s60-curse-of-silence-demo.avi

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