Low

Denial of Service via Long Name Field in Nokia 9500 vCard Viewer

IdentifiersCVE-2005-1801CWE-119

A vulnerability in the vCard viewer of the Nokia 9500 allows an attacker to craft a vCard file with an excessively long Name field. When a user attempts to view such a vCard, the application crashes, resulting in a denial of service. The issue is likely due to improper bounds checking or buffer management when processing the Name field in the vCard parser.

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ANALYST BRIEF

Impact, mitigation & remediation

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Impact

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Successful exploitation allows an attacker to crash the vCard viewer application on the Nokia 9500, causing a denial of service. There is no indication of code execution or privilege escalation, but repeated exploitation could disrupt device usability.

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

Users should avoid opening vCard files from untrusted sources. Mobile device administrators can consider filtering or scanning vCard attachments for abnormally long fields as a temporary mitigation until a patch is available.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Remediation would require a software update from Nokia that properly validates the length of the Name field in vCard files before processing, ensuring that buffer overflows or similar memory errors cannot occur.

PUBLIC EXPLOITS

Exploits

No valid public exploits. Mallory filtered out 1 candidate as fakes, detection scripts, or README-only repos.

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EXPOSURE SURFACE

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VendorProductType

Nokia9500application

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ACTIVITY FEED

Recent activity

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